Adjective : low-tension wire.    From Dictionary.com. 

With such short distances, a low-tension line is sufficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. BASIC APPROACH a) Cost-Benefit-Approach for Socio-Economic Selection] Reference

Are you a fan of any particular writing exercises to work through low-tension scenes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with an Editor: Lisa Rector, Part 2] Reference

Electrical products suitable for small producers are low-tension insulators and fuse holders.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Main product lines and forming options] Reference

These winds play havoc with phone, electrical and cable lines strung along low-tension poles.    From Wordnik.com.  [SWEATblog: March 2009 Archives] Reference

Energy produced is usually supplied to relatively few consumers nearby, mostly with a low-tension distribution network only.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. THE UNUSED HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL] Reference

On the other side there are the high - and low-tension lines, built of single conduit 18 in. long and a little more than 5 in. square outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Bergen Hill Tunnels. Paper No. 1154] Reference

The power conduits were single-way, with the bank for high-tension cables separated in the side-walls from the low-tension bank, as shown on Plate XII.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158] Reference

This causes a decrease in surface tension localized to one region of the machine, which is in turn propelled forward away from the low-tension part of the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harnessing Direct Solar Power To Propel Tiny Nanomaterial Machines | Impact Lab] Reference

According to present experience, it is (except in some extraordinary cases) uneconomical to distribute direct low-tension current over more than a radius of a mile and a half from the generating point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

After water-proofing the sand-walls and laying the low-tension ducts, a second pair of carriages, with panels on one side only, for 60 ft. of side-wall and skewback to the 15° line, were set and braced against the core-wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158] Reference

The success of the low-tension system was followed by the introduction of the alternating system, using high potential primaries with the converters at each house, reducing, as a rule, from 1,000 down to either 50 or 100 volts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference

Since the local low-tension distribution network must be provided anyway, the cost of local distribution would remain the same whether the electricity-supply comes from the local powerstation, or from grid extension fed by a distant power plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. BASIC APPROACH a) Cost-Benefit-Approach for Socio-Economic Selection] Reference

"We recognize the Arctic as a low-tension area," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference

Plans are afoot to provide 18 km of high-tension lines and 60 km of low-tension lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

That included a capital subsidy of Rs. 90 lakh and Rs. 12 lakh as low-tension power tariff subsidy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The existing system has low-tension network, old poles installed in narrow streets and lanes, hanging cables and overhead lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Light-weight pistons are coated with a special anti-friction compound and fitted with low-tension rings for improved gas mileage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility] Reference

Rogers, 66, who claimed 329 votes to win a third term on the council, said he was glad to be the lead vote-getter in the low-tension contest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Mount Telegram - Business] Reference

Yes, they can detect us, even without the driving rays, since this vessel uses much low-tension, low-frequency electricity in its automatic machinery, lights, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference

Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

This new plant takes high-tension polyphase current from a water-power thirty or forty miles away at Paderno, on the river Adda, flowing from the Apennines; but delivers low-tension direct current for distribution to the regular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

CHENNAI: The government is prepared to reduce the quantum of power cut imposed on low-tension and high-tension industries if the industries are agreeable to the scheme of regional holidays, Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami told the Assembly on Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

This new plant takes high-tension polyphase current from a water-power thirty or forty miles away at Paderno, on the river Adda, flowing from the Apennines; but delivers low-tension direct current for distribution to the regular Edison three-wire system throughout Milan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1] Reference

There will be no impact on around 19 lakh farm connections of low-tension category, 13 lakh huts, 1.5 lakh places of worship, 1.4 lakh handloom weavers (for consumption up to 100 units) and 85,000 powerloom weavers (500 units), all of whom will continue to enjoy free power supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

"Initially, the ministry will fund a pilot project that will be implemented jointly by the state-run BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd) and NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) at select sites to evaluate the cost and the quality of energy generated to ensure uninterrupted supply to low-tension power users," Brahma pointed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [MobileTopSoft news board] Reference

As to the distribution of energy, local low-tension lines (380.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. BASIC APPROACH a) Cost-Benefit-Approach for Socio-Economic Selection] Reference

"It must be low frequency, low-tension electricity, which is never used, so far as I know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference

His wife weighs the ounce that he ought to weigh if he didn't weigh seventeen stone, and they sit at each end of a huge table in a tiny room filled with maroon plush against a green carpet, and all through dinner they talk about carburetters and low-tension magnetos, and Mr. Cheeseman discusses what friend living in the row of houses, of which theirs is one, they would get most out of in return for a drive in the motor next Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference

In other cases dynamos are used having collector rings for alternating current on one side and a commutator for direct current on the other side of the armature, thus enabling you, when the peak in two districts of a city comes at two different times, to take care of this peak by means of the same original generating unit, furnishing direct low-tension current to the points near the central station and alternating current to the distant points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference