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cable television

cable television noun: television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.

Noun

cable television (uncountable)

  1. Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.

cable television meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Arabic

cable television in Hindi

television received through coaxial cables
केबल टीवी kebal ṭīvī

cable television in Tamil

வடவழித் தொலைக்காட்சி, கம்பிவடத் தொலைக் காட்சி

cable television in Urdu

television received through coaxial cables
کیبل ٹی وی kebal ṭī-vī

cable television in Arabic

television received through coaxial cables
تِلِفِزْيُون كَبْلِيّ tilifizyūn kabliyy
More languagesFewer languages
cable television in Malay
televisyen kabel
cable television in Persian
تلویزیون کابلی televiziyon-e kâbli
cable television in Thai
โทรทัศน์ผ่านสายเคเบิล toh-rá-tát pàan săai-kay-bêrn
cable television in Vietnamese
truyền hình cáp, truyền hình hữu tuyến

Forms of cable television

alternative formcable TV

Questions about cable television

What does cable television mean?
Cable television means television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.
What is cable television in Hindi?
Cable television in Hindi is केबल टीवी (kebal ṭīvī). See Cable television meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cable television?
Cable television is a noun.

Words near cable television in the dictionary

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  4. cable stripper
  5. cable strippers
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  7. cable terminal
  8. cable terminals
  9. cable theory
  10. cable tidy
  11. cable tie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cable television (page history and authors); cable television (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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