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Meanings of electric tension in inglés

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Difference in the electric potential between two points in space.

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Usage of electric tension in inglés
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Kit yawned, apparently missing the electric tension that had infused our group.
Terminal
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The heat and electric tension of the atmosphere would then become almost insupportable.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
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The sense of the Coming's imminence was like an electric tension in the air.
Brave New World
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There was an electric tension in the very air.
A Yankee in the Trenches
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The electric tension of the dynamos measures 600 volts.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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The air was surcharged with the electric tension that heralds the most critical moments of revolution.
From October to Brest-Litovsk
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So many egos and conflicting ambitions sealed into a workspace creates a type of electric tension.
The Guardian
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The electric tension diminishes toward the edges and angles, and frequently positive polarity is produced there.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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Perhaps it was by a sort of wireless electric tension that seemed to pervade the air.
Guy Garrick
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The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, a stranger, brought light.
Les Misérables
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One could feel the electric tension in the air, the battle of two powers for good or evil.
The War Terror
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What then are the causes of this rupture of the equilibrium in the electric tension of the air?
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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He turned on the currents from the piles no longer neutralized by the electric tension of the surrounding atmosphere.
Robur the Conqueror
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Now he felt strung to a curious electric tension, with pulse and head throbbing powerfully like a racing engine.
Diane of the Green Van
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I sympathized for a moment with his madness and felt myself at once in the electric tension of Hell.
Ghosts
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From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension.
Les Misérables