A cable is two or more wires bound together which may be bare, covered or insulated. It may be protected by a jacket sheath which protects all. Electrical cables can also act as carriers for other media, including optical fibers. Cables may be made more flexible by stranding, usually twisting or braiding. Smaller individual wires allows more flexibility. Bunching small wires before concentric stranding adds the most flexibility. A thin coat of tin on the individual wires provides lubrication for longest life. Tight lays during stranding makes the cable ...

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• Cable - Types of cable

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See also:

Shielded cable, Shielded cable - Signal cables, Shielded cable - Power cables

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Ribbon cables are usually specified by two numbers: the spacing or pitch of the conductors, and the number of conductors or ways. Conventionally a spacing of 0.05 inch (1.27 mm) was the norm allowing for a two row connector with a pin spacing of 0.1 inch (2.54 mm). This size is still seen today in floppy cables and older ATA cables as well as many more specialist applications. The high-speed ATA cable used for ULTRA-ATA 66 and above has 0.025 inch (0.64 mm) pitch and 80 ways. The 40 pin connection is still used but with ...

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Ribbon cable, Ribbon cable - Cable sizes, Ribbon cable - Cable connectors

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Cable transport refers to the broad class of transport modes that rely on vehicles pulled by cables, rather than having an internal power source. The use of pulleys and balancing of loads going up and down are sometimes elements of cable transport. Common modes include: Aerial tramway Cable car Cable ferry Elevator Funicular C ...

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A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems. These include: A cable car (railway), a street railway system using a cable in the road to pull the cars along. Aerial tramways, consisting of a cabin suspended along a cable in the sky, pulled by a cable. Funiculars, consisting of a pair of railway cars that alternately ascend and descend an inclined right-of-way, attached by a common cable.

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A cable tie (coll. also "strap", "rat belt", "mouse belt", "tie wrap", or "zip tie") is a type of fastener, especially for binding several electronic cables or wires together, and to organize cables and wires. In its most popular form, a cable tie consists of a sturdy tape of plastic (usually Nylon) with an integrated gear rack, and on one end with a ratchet within a small open case. Once the tip on the other (often conveniently pointed) end of the cable tie has been installed and pulled through the case and past ...

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A cable layer is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electricity, and such. A large superstructure, and one or more spools that feed off the transom distinguish it. Other related archivescables, superstructure, transom, vessel

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Invented by Frank Bowden, a bowden cable is a type of flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force or energy by the movement of an inner cable (most commonly of steel or stainless steel) relative to a hollow outer cable housing. The cable housing is generally of composite construction, consisting of a spiral steel wire, often lined with plastic, and with a plastic outer sheath. The linear movement of the inner cable is generally used to transmit a pulling force, although for very light applications over shorter distances (s ...

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• Bowden cable - Uses

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Coaxial cable is an electrical cable consisting of a round conducting wire, surrounded by an insulating spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath, and usually surrounded by a final insulating layer. The cable is designed to carry a high-frequency or broadband signal, as a high-frequency transmission line. Sometimes DC power (called bias) is added to the signal to supply the equipment at the other end, as in direct broadcast satellite receivers. Because the electromagnetic field carrying the signal exists (ideally) only in the space between the inner and outer conductors, it cannot interfere with or suffe ...

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• Coaxial cable - Signal propagation in coaxial cable
• Coaxial cable - Important parameters
• Coaxial cable - Standard cable types
• Coaxial cable - Uses of coaxial cable
• Coaxial cable - Types of coaxial cable
• Coaxial cable - Interference and troubleshooting
• Coaxial cable - Timeline

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Cable. Art by Patrick Zircher Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers, also called "Dayspring" and "Askani'Son") is a Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men and X-Force. He first appeared in The New Mutants #87 (1990). Cable comics - Publication history. Cable is often credited as a Rob Liefeld creation and though Liefeld is responsible for the character's visual design and many of his characteristics, the character was originally conceived as "Commander X," by Marvel edito ...

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• Cable comics - Publication history
• Cable comics - Character biography
• Cable comics - Childhood
• Cable comics - Future
• Cable comics - Present
• Cable comics - New Mutants/X-Force
• Cable comics - Savior
• Cable comics - Second Childhood
• Cable comics - 2099 World Of Tomorrow
• Cable comics - Powers and abilities
• Cable comics - Appearances in other media
• Cable comics - Awards

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Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via ...

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• Cable television - History of U.S. cable television and its regulation
• Cable television - The birth of public access television
• Cable television - Programming
• Cable television - United States
• Cable television - Cable television fees and programming lineups
• Cable television - Mexico
• Cable television - United Kingdom
• Cable television - Republic of Ireland
• Cable television - Hong Kong
• Cable television - Singapore
• Cable television - Australia
• Cable television - Other cable-based services

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A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required. Cable cars are sometimes confused with funiculars, where the cars are permanently attached to the cable. Cable car railway - Operation. The cable is itself powered by a stationary motor or engine situated in a cable house or power house. The speed at which it moves is relati ...

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• Cable car railway - Operation
• Cable car railway - History
• Cable car railway - Relation to Funiculars
• Cable car railway - Cities currently operating cable cars
• Cable car railway - Cities previously operating cable cars
• Cable car railway - Australia
• Cable car railway - France
• Cable car railway - New Zealand
• Cable car railway - Portugal
• Cable car railway - United Kingdom
• Cable car railway - Isle of Man
• Cable car railway - United States
• Cable car railway - Sources

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A cable modem is a special type of modem that is designed to modulate a data signal over cable television infrastructure. Cable modems are primarily used to deliver broadband Internet access, taking advantage of unused bandwidth on a cable television network. There were 22.5 million cable modem users in the United States during Q1 2005. That's up from 17.4 million in Q1 2004. It is also commonly found in Latin America. Cable modems should not be confused with older LAN systems such as 10base2 or 10base5 that used coaxial cables ...

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• Cable modem - Cable Internet Access
• Cable modem - CDLP
• Cable modem - Cable Modems and VoIP
• Cable modem - Cable modem manufacturers

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A cable-stayed bridge is a bridge that consists of one or more pillars, with cables supporting the roadbed. There are two major classes of cable-stayed bridges, differentiated by how the cables are connected to the pillars. In a parallel attachment design, the cables are made nearly parallel by having the height of attachment on the pillar be similar to the distance from the pillar along the roadway. In a radial attachment design, the ...

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• Cable-stayed bridge - Comparison with suspension bridge
• Cable-stayed bridge - Variations
• Cable-stayed bridge - A related bridge type
• Cable-stayed bridge - Examples of cable-stayed bridges

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A cable ferry is a means of water transportation by which a ferry or other boat is propelled and guided across a river or other larger body of water by means of cables or chains connected to both shores. Early manifestations of cable ferries often used rope or steel chains, which were largely replaced by stronger and more durable wire cable by the late 19th century. They are common where there is little other water-borne traffic which could get snagged in the cable or chains, where the water may be too shallow for other options ...

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Cable and Wireless (LSE: CW.) is a British telecommunications company. In the mid-1980s, it became the first company in the UK to offer an alternative telephone service to British Telecom (via subsidiary Mercury Communications, merged into C&W in 1997). The company later offered cable TV to its customers, although their cable assets were sold to NTL in 2000. Cable & Wireless - History. Cable and Wireless traces its history back to a number of British telegraph companies founded in the 1860s, ...

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• Cable & Wireless - History
• Cable & Wireless - Current and historical markets
• Cable & Wireless - Recent events timeline
• Cable & Wireless - External link

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A cable length or cable's length is a nautical unit of measure, for which at least four definitions seem to exist: Common definition: 1/10 nautical mile, i.e. 185.2 m for international nautical mile, was used with other precise definitions of the nautical mile as well. "Ordinary" definition: 100 fathoms, i.e. 182.88 m. US Navy definition: 120 fathoms, i.e. 219.456 m. Royal Navy definition: 1/10 Admiralty nautical mile, 608 feet, i.e. 185.3184 m. The unit is named after the length of a shi ...

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Cable radio or cable FM is a complementary concept to that of cable television, bringing radio transmissions into homes and businesses via coaxial cable. It is generally used as cable TV was in its early days when it was "community antenna television", to enhance the quality of signals that are difficult to receive in an area. However, cable-only radio outlets also exist. The use of cable radio varies from area to area — some cable TV systems don't include it at all, and others only have something approaching it on dig ...

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A cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge is a modern variation of the cable-stayed bridge. This design has been pioneered by the architect Santiago Calatrava. An example of this type is the Puente del Alamillo. In two of his designs the force distribution does not depend solely upon the cantilever action of the spar; the angle of the spar away from the bridge and the weight distribution in the spar serve to reduce the overturning forces applied to the footing of the spar. In contrast, in his swinging Puente de la Mujer design the spar reaches to ...

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• Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge - Bridges of this type by Santiago Calatrava

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Short coaxial cables are commonly used to connect home video equipment, or in ham radio setups. They used to be common for implementing computer networks, in particular Ethernet, but twisted pair cables have replaced them in most applications. Long distance coaxial cable is used to connect radio networks and television networks, though this has largely been superseded by other more high-tech methods (fibre optics, T1/E1, satellite). It ...

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Coaxial cable, Coaxial cable - Signal propagation in coaxial cable, Coaxial cable - Important parameters, Coaxial cable - Standard cable types, Coaxial cable - Uses of coaxial cable, Coaxial cable - Types of coaxial cable, Coaxial cable - Interference and troubleshooting, Coaxial cable - Timeline

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