How to Use coaxial cable in a Sentence

coaxial cable

noun
  • Ochoa-Lopez’s body was found in a garbage can outside the Figueroa home on May 14 with the coaxial cable used to strangle her still around her neck.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 June 2019
  • Connect it to your TV with a coaxial cable, which comes with the antenna, and a nearby outlet.
    Alicia Kortendick, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2020
  • In the case of a coaxial cable, the dielectric is usually chosen such that a 50Ohm resistor will match the properties of the cable.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Physical phone, coaxial cable, or fiber optic hookups are rare in the country.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The administration said the rearview cameras have a solid core coaxial cable used to send the feed from the rearview camera to the vehicle's center display.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021
  • An adapter to connect the rabbit ears’ U.S. coaxial cable to the dongle’s European socket cost a couple of dollars.
    IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2013
  • Sometimes your site will also have a coaxial cable connection to hook your trailer up to cable TV.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Prosecutors allege Clarisa Figueroa strangled her with a coaxial cable and cut the infant from her womb.
    Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2019
  • The speeds were delivered over a hybrid fiber-cable network, with the coaxial cable providing the final connection into the home.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Unfortunately, doing it right can increase the price of that outdoor antenna well beyond $20 and the cost of coaxial cable.
    Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • This can be accomplished via a coaxial cable, an ethernet cable, or even through your home's electrical wiring.
    Allen Foster, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Typically, that's the black box with a coaxial cable going into it, and the Verizon or Comcast logo somewhere.
    Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Due to a faulty communication coaxial cable connector, the rearview camera image may not appear on the display.
    Reuters, NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • The cable industry has abused geographic monopolies to raise prices almost since the first coaxial cables were strung on telephone poles.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • After plugging your gateway in and connecting the coaxial cable, connect a computer to the device with an ethernet cable.
    Peter McPherson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Cable – Cable internet service comes from the same coaxial cable network that is used with cable television.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Networks using coaxial cable, the kind that dominate in metro Denver and other cities, are designed to provide download to upload capacity at a 10:1 ratio.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Comcast uses a hybrid of fiber optic and coaxial cables to supply most of its Colorado customers, who are concentrated primarily in the northern Front Range and the Interstate 70 corridor.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2019
  • But connecting them all by coaxial cable to control and readout electronics, which work at room temperature, would be impossible.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Goldstone sent the converted signal through regular coaxial cable channels to Mission Control in Houston.
    Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
  • But people watching Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind at home were viewing a feed relayed through microwaves, coaxial cables and satellites from Houston to television networks, with the images suffering a little degradation on every leg.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 15 July 2019

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