cable's length

1. 1.

   a nautical unit of depth

   Synonymscablecable length

   Broaderlinear unit

Questions about cable's length

What does cable's length mean?

cable's length means "a nautical unit of depth".

What is another word for cable's length?

Close synonyms include cable, cable 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's length a common word?

cable's 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.