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Cable - A group of individually insulated conductors or subcomponents twisted helically.

Cable Assembly - A completed cable and its associated hardware ready to install.

Cable Filter - The material used in multiple conductor cable to occupy the spaced forced by the assembly of components, thus forming a core of the desired shape (normally cylindrical).

Cabling - The grouping or twisting together of two or more insulated conductors or subcomponents to form
a cable.

Cabling Factor - Used in the formula for calculating the diameter of and unshielded, unjacketed cable. D-Kd, where D is the cable diameter, K is the factor and d is the diameter of one insulated conductor.

Caged Armor - A construction using wires within a jacket to increase mechanical protection and tensile strength. This construction is sometimes used in submarine cables.

Capacitance - Storage of electrically separated charges between two plates having different potentials. The value depends largely on the surface area of the plates and the distance between them.

Capacitance Direct - The capacitance measured directly from conductor to conductor through a single insulating layer.

Capacitance Mutual - The capacitance between two conductors with all other conductors including shield, sort circuited to ground.

Capacitance, Unbalanced to ground - An inequality of capacitance between the wires of two or more pairs which result in a transfer of unwanted signal from one pair to others.