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noun, verb, -bled, -bling.| 1. | a heavy, strong rope. |
| 2. | a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges. |
| 3. | a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism. |
| 4. | Nautical.
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| 5. | Electricity. an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another. |
| 6. | cablegram. |
| 7. | cable television. |
| 8. | cable-stitch. |
| 9. | Architecture. one of a number of reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster. |
| 10. | to send (a message) by cable. |
| 11. | to send a cablegram to. |
| 12. | to fasten with a cable. |
| 13. | to furnish with a cable. |
| 14. | to join (cities, parts of a country, etc.) by means of a cable television network: The state will be completely cabled in a few years. |
| 15. | to send a message by cable. |
| 16. | to cable-stitch. |
[key-buhl] | George Washington, 1844–1925, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. |
| a nautical unit of length equivalent to 720 feet (219 meters) in the U.S. Navy and 608 feet (185 meters) in the British Navy. |
| ca·ble (kā'bəl) n.
v. tr.
To send a cablegram. [Middle English, from Old North French, from Late Latin capulum, lasso, from Latin capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.] ca'bler n. |
| Ca·ble (kā'bəl) American writer whose works, including short stories and the novel The Grandissimes (1880), concern social order and racial discord in the South. |
Cable
In the context of investing, it refers to the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the British pound sterling.
Investopedia Commentary
Sometimes FOREX brokers are referred to as "Cable Dealers."
Related Links
A Primer On The Forex Market
Floating And Fixed Exchange Rates
See also: Currency, Exchange Rate, FOREX
cable
in electrical and electronic systems, a conductor or group of conductors for transmitting electric power or telecommunication signals from one place to another. Electric communication cables transmit voice messages, computer data, and visual images via electrical signals to telephones, wired radios, computers, teleprinters, facsimile machines, and televisions. There is no clear distinction between an electric wire and an electric cable. Usually the former refers to a single, solid metallic conductor, with or without insulation, while the latter refers to a stranded conductor or to an assembly of insulated conductors. With fibre-optic cables, made of flexible fibres of glass and plastic, electrical signals are converted to light pulses for the transmission of audio, video, and computer data
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