Definition of coaxial cable
: a transmission line that consists of a tube of electrically conducting material surrounding a central conductor held in place by insulators and that is used to transmit telegraph, telephone, television, and Internet signals
— called also coax cable
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The first known use of coaxial cable was in 1935
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