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Coaxial

Definition: Coaxial

Coaxial

Adjective

1. Having a common axis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Coaxial

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
coaxEnglishCoaxial cableN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Coaxial

Synonym: coaxal (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Coaxial

English words defined with "coaxial": coaxial cableethernet, ethernet cablewheel and axle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "coaxial": 10base2, 10base5beaded coax, bearing spacer, BNC, broadband cablecheapernet, coaxial stub, cylindrical wavediscone antenna, distance sleeve, double gear, dual gearelectrical coil, ELECTRICAL INSPECTORFibre Channel-Arbitrated LoopHelmholtz coilinspector, electrical bench, inspector, precision electrical assembly, inter-com installer, inter-com servicerlateral loss, lateral misalignment, load isolatormagic teenon-boosted aerial repeater system, non-boosted antenna repeater system, non-dissipative stubPlasma FocusRG58, Russell anglesscrewed end mounting, semi-rigid coaxial line, septate waveguide, serial digital interface, shaft coupling, sleeve-dipole antenna, SOUND TECHNICIAN, spacer, spacer bush, spacer sleeve, starting taper, SURGICAL-FORCEPS FABRICATORTECHNICIAN, PLANT AND MAINTENANCE, thick Ethernet, thicknet, twin gear. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Coaxial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (coaxial), Portuguese (coaxial), Spanish (coaxial).

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Commercial Usage: Coaxial

DomainTitle

References

  • Coaxial Cable and Wire for Cable Television in Taiwan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • The World Market for Coaxial Cable and Other Electric Coaxial Conductors: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Coaxial Cable in Algeria [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coaxial

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Coaxial

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6541,645

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Coaxial

Expressions using "coaxial": cabo coaxial coaxial cable coaxial stub. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coaxial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coaxial cable

337

coaxial helicopter

10

coaxial

68

coaxial cable manufacturer

9

coaxial connector

51

coaxial to rca

9

coaxial connector n rf series

39

rf coaxial cable

8

coaxial cables

33

b b b b b b cable cable cable coaxial electronic electronic express multiconductor wire

8

coaxial digital cable

28

optical to coaxial converter

8

rg6 coaxial cable

22

coaxial vga

7

cable coaxial flat

18

coaxial cable type

7

coaxial v

17

booster coaxial signal

7

coaxial switch

16

coaxial kabel

6

coaxial cable rg59

16

coaxial adapter

6

coaxial cable assembly

14

coaxial speaker

6

cable coaxial jacks rca

13

coaxial to optical

6

bulk coaxial

13

adapter coaxial rca

6

cabo coaxial

12

audio audio cables coaxial digital digital used

6

coaxial digital audio cable

11

coaxial connector gilbert

6

digital coaxial

11

rg 6 coaxial cable

6

coaxial cable connector

11

coaxial termination

6

coaxial cable stripper

11

coaxial surge protector

6

coaxial optical vs

10

coaxial antenna

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coaxial

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

   

Portuguese

  

coaxial. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

коаксальный (coaxal). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koaksijalan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

coaxial. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

koaxial (coaxal). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ortak eksenli (coaxal), eksendeş (coaxal). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

коаксіальний (coaxal). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coaxial

Derivations

Words beginning with "coaxial": coaxially. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Coaxial"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "coaxial" (pronounced kō'a"ksēul)
6-a" k s ē u lbiaxial.
3-ē u lactuarial, 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.

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Anagrams: Coaxial

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coaxial


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 61 78 69 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-    -..-    ..    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100001 01111000 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#97 &#120 &#105 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0061 0078 0069 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37816790756778

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INDEX

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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