Definition of Low-voltage

1. Adjective. Subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage.

Exact synonyms: Low-tension
Category relationships: Electricity
Antonyms: High-tension

Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-voltage

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low-speed
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low-tech
low-tension
low-thoughted
low-toned
low-voltage (current term)
low-warp-loom
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Literary usage of Low-voltage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1919)
"(a) Under normal operating conditions the maximum voltage stress between adjacent high voltage and low voltage external terminals is : for subtractive ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"The low-voltage switch is relatively smaller because it is not necessary to make it larger, the striking distance is not the limiting feature. ..."

3. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"11 Automobile 28:37-9 Ja 2 '13 Storage battery charging: a vibrating rectifier changing alternate current of standard voltage to low-voltage direct current ..."

4. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey, James Aston (1919)
"Corrosion at Low Voltage.—The statement is often made that the voltage between pipes and rails must exceed the EMF of decomposition of water (1.7 volts) ..."

5. Bulletin by National Electric Light Association (1911)
"If a customer is found who is using the low-voltage lamps, ... Eugene Creed Toronto, Canada We do not encourage the use of low-voltage transformers and ..."

6. Lectures: On Illuminating Engineering Delivered at the Johns Hopkins by Johns Hopkins University, Illuminating Engineering Society (1911)
"It may be simply transformed to low-voltage, constant-potential service or to high-voltage, constant-alternating current for series arc and incandescent ..."

7. Stress, Gender, and Alcohol-Seeking Behavior edited by Walter A. Hunt, Sam Zakhari (1996)
"Statistical analysis revealed may, in fact, be a risk marker for al- that the presence of the low-voltage coholism. In one study, children EEG variant was ..."

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