Cable (disambiguation)

The term cable (from French cable or Latin capulum , catch rope ') denotes

• in electrical engineering and information technology, an electrical or optical cable
• in seaman's language
  • a thick rope or hawser
  • a nautical unit, see cable length
• is often wrongly referred to as diplomatic jargon and confused with wire report or telegram
• colloquially short for cable television
• (from Low German kavele 'Los')
  • obsolete: a profit share
  • an outdated measure of area
  • an old Saxon area measure for hay, see cable (unit)
• a font family in typography, see Kabel (font)
• in forex trading, the British pound / US dollar currency pair
• in the dyke system a historical measure for a dyke section, see dyke cables

The name of cable wear

• People:
  • Ernst Kabel (1879–1955), German print shop owner and publisher
  • Heidi Kabel (1914-2010), German actress
  • Peter Kabel , the founder of Kabel New Media AG
  • Rainer Kabel (* 1936), German media scientist and journalist
  • Rudolf Kabel (1934–2019), German administrative lawyer; from 1991 to 1998 director at the German Bundestag
  • Walter Kabel (1927–1997), German pianist and composer
  • Walther Kabel (1878–1935), German entertainment writer
• Companies:
  • cable one , a television station
  • Kabel BW , a cable television network operator
  • Vodafone Kabel Deutschland , a cable television network operator
• Districts:
  • Hagen cable
    • and the former train station of the same name on the Ruhr-Sieg route

See also:

Wiktionary: Cable  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Cable (disambiguation)
• Qabel

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.