coaxial cable
noun
: 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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Cox internet is powered by fiber, but connected via a coaxial cable line.
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Kara McGinley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Server racks house obsolete coaxial cable boxes, displayed as if in a museum, next to today’s fiber-optic boxes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2025
But Northwood could not decode the message due to a coaxial cable being plugged into the wrong port.
—ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
Fiber optic cable, in my opinion, is more fragile than traditional solid-copper coaxial cable.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
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Kara McGinley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Server racks house obsolete coaxial cable boxes, displayed as if in a museum, next to today’s fiber-optic boxes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Aug. 2025
But Northwood could not decode the message due to a coaxial cable being plugged into the wrong port.
—ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
Fiber optic cable, in my opinion, is more fragile than traditional solid-copper coaxial cable.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
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“Coaxial cable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coaxial%20cable. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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