A cable usually containing a large number of separately insulated wires, and itself insulated. It is suspended in the air. As its weight is sometimes so great that it could not well sustain it, a suspending wire is in such cases carried along with it, to which it is suspended by cable hangers, q. v.

(a) Abbreviation for Cablegram, q. v. (b) v. It is also used as a verb, meaning to transmit a message by submarine cable. (c). An insulated electric conductor, of large diameter. It often is protected by armor or metallic sheathing and may be designed for use as an aerial, submarine, subterranean or conduit cable. A [...]

(a) Abbreviation for Centigrade, as 100 C., meaning 100 Centigrade. (See Centigrade Scale.) (b) A symbol of current or of current strength. Thus in the expression of Ohm’s law C = E/R. C indicates current strength or intensity, not in any fixed unit, but only in a unit of the same order in which E [...]