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straight-through

straight-through adjective: of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to the same pins at the other: pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, and so on; contrasted with crossover.

Adjective

straight-through (not comparable)

  1. Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to the same pins at the other: pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, and so on; contrasted with crossover.

Questions about straight-through

What does straight-through mean?
Straight-through means of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to the same pins at the other: pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, and so on; contrasted with crossover.
What part of speech is straight-through?
Straight-through is an adjective.

Words near straight-through in the dictionary

  1. straight-shooters
  2. straight-shooting
  3. straight-six
  4. straight-sixes
  5. straight-thinking
  6. straight-through
  7. straight-to-dvd
  8. straight-tusked elephant
  9. straight-tusked elephants
  10. straight-up
  11. straight-wash

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