cable length

1. 1.

   a nautical unit of depth

   Synonymscablecable's length

   Broaderlinear unit

Questions about cable length

What does cable length mean?

cable length means "a nautical unit of depth".

What is another word for cable length?

Close synonyms include cable, cable's length. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cable length a common word?

cable length is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.