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Definition: Coaxial |
CoaxialAdjective1. Having a common axis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| coax | English | Coaxial cable | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CoaxialSynonym: coaxal (adj). (additional references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Industry executives estimate that the fastest Internet growth in the coming years will be seen through coaxial cable. (references) | |
In terms of infrastructure, Mexico has almost 43,000 kilometers of coaxial cable and more than 5,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable. (references) | ||
Most cable networks offer one-way connectivity only using coaxial cable, and they can support only 330MHz to 450MHz of analogue capacity. (references) | ||
Economic History | Norway | Telenor has been developing broadband capacity through four channels: copper terrestrial network, coaxial cable, digital ground-based broadcasting network and digital satellite distribution. (references) |
Pakistan | Pakistan is connected with most countries through satellite links, for which it has earth station complexes, while with the neighboring countries it has terrestrial, coaxial cable, and Microwave links. (references) | |
Spain | Telecommunications: generally adequate, modern facilities; 15,921,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 190 AM, 406 (134 repeaters) FM, 100 (1,297 repeaters) TV; 22 coaxial submarine cables; two communications satellite earth stations operating in INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean); MARECS, INMARSAT, and EUTELSAT systems; one satellite HISPASAT, tropospheric links. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Coaxial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coaxial" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "coaxial": cabo coaxial ♦ coaxial cable ♦ coaxial stub. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "coaxial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me bosht të përbashkët (coaxal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متحد المحور. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | имащ обща ос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 同轴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | koaxiální (coaxal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | koaksial-kabel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | coaxiaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puolijäykkä koaksiaalijohto (semi-rigid coaxial line), koaksiaalikaapeli (coax, coaxial cable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coaxial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Koaxial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έχων κοινόν άξονα, ομοαξονικόσ, ομοαξονικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח" צירי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közös tengelyû (coaxal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coassiale (coax, coaxial cable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 同軸ケーブル (coaxial cable), コア'吐く (coaxial loudspeaker, cohabitation, coil, coil spring, coin, coin laundry, coin locker, coin toss, coitus, core business, core curriculum, core system, core time, core-dump, koala, laundrette, to dump core). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうじくケーブル (coaxial cable), コアキシャルス"ーカー (coaxial loudspeaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 동축. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oaxialcay coaxial. (various references) коаксальный (coaxal). (various references) koaksijalan. (various references) coaxial. (various references) koaxial (coaxal). (various references) ortak eksenli (coaxal), eksendeş (coaxal). (various references) коаксіальний (coaxal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coaxial": coaxially. (additional references) | |
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"Coaxial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cacaxtia, Coalizao, coaxi, coaxile, Coraxi, coxal, Coxiella, coxii, coxil, Koyadia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coaxial" (pronounced kō'a"ksēul) |
| 6 | -a" k s ē u l | biaxial. |
| 3 | -ē u l | actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, centennial, cereal, ceremonial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, custodial, decennial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, filial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, intracranial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, memorial, menial, mercurial, microbial, millennial, ministerial, myocardial, nomenclatorial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, raptorial, remedial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-x" | |
-1 letter: coaxal, oxalic. | |
-2 letters: axial, calix, coala, coxal. | |
-3 letters: axal, axil, calo, calx, ciao, coal, coax, coil, cola, coxa, laic, loca, loci. | |
-4 letters: aal, ail, ala, col, cox, lac, lax, lox, oca, oil. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, al, ax, la, li, lo, ox, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-x" | |
+1 letter: coxalgia. | |
+2 letters: coaxially, coxalgias. | |
+3 letters: axoplasmic. | |
+4 letters: axiological, exclamation, paradoxical. | |
+5 letters: excavational, exclamations, extralogical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 61 78 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .- -..- .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100001 01111000 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o a x i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0061 0078 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37816790756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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