Cable
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A cable is two or more wires running side by side and bonded, twisted, or braided together to form a single assembly. The term originally referred to a nautical line of specific length where multiple ropes, each laid clockwise, are then laid together anti-clockwise and shackled to produce a strong thick line, resistant to water absorption, that was used to anchor large ships. In mechanics, cables, otherwise known as wire ropes, are used for lifting, hauling, and towing or conveying force through tension. In electrical engineering cables are used to carry electric currents. An optical cable contains one or more optical fibers in a protective jacket that supports the fibers.
Mechanical cables
- Arresting cable
- Bowden cable
- Heavy-lift cable
- Wire rope (wire cable)
See also
For transmission see: Power cable, High-voltage cable and HVDC
- Cable dressing
- Cable gland
- Cable harness
- Cable lacing
- Cable length
- Cable management
- Cable modem
- Cable reel
- Cable television
- Cable tray
- Category 5 cable
- Category 6 cable
- Category 7 cable
- Circuit integrity
- Copper wire and cable
- Cross-linked polyethylene
- DOCSIS
- Electrical connector
- Electrical wiring
- Extension cable
- International Cablemakers Federation
- Over/under cable coiling
- Polyvinyl chloride
- Portable cord
- Power cable
- Profibus
- Submarine communications cable
- Submarine power cable
- Steel Wire Armoured (SWA) Cable
- SY control cable
- Tensile structure
- Transmission line
- Underwriter's knot
- Wire
- Wire rope