WordNet
n. cable used to distribute electricity [syn: power line]
Wikipedia
A power cable is an assembly of one or more electrical conductors, usually held together with an overall sheath. The assembly is used for transmission of electrical power. Power cables may be installed as permanent wiring within buildings, buried in the ground, run overhead, or exposed.
Flexible power cables are used for portable devices, mobile tools and machinery.
Usage examples of "power cable".
He put it in the duffel, along with the power cable, the other cable, and his Lucky Dragon fanny pack, this last because the thing had already saved his ass once, and it might be lucky.
Inside the lead sheathing the rubber round the power cable has been scorched away.
They responded to his dumb-show signs and gave him some tools and he straightened them and rehooked the power cable.
He could leave one on in a chair while he carried the other one out to turn the power cable off.
These were at the propeller shafts, and at the top stuffing box through which the power cable passed.
Luke grunted as he hauled himself another arm's length up the thick power cable.
He tugged experimentally at a power cable leading into the left leg's main servomotor Yes, quite so.
Janitors are going through it with machines the size of hot dog carts, wrangling these mile-long coils of thumb-thick orange power cable, steaming beer vomit and artificial popcorn-butter lipids up out of the thin grey mats that, when Randy was there, seemed not so much like carpet as references to carpeting or carpet signifiers.
A visual relayed from one of my techspiders shows the near ends of both the power cable and the data line dropping clear of my rear hatch.
Got sensor cable, power cable, and this is the tricky part, electric reactive fiber.
The three overland vehicles pulled to a halt at the top of the cliffs, and two engineers got out, studying the power cable and jabbering with each other.