transmission line

1. 1.

   a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

   Synonymscableline

   Broaderconductor

   Narrowercoaxial cableelectrical cablefiber optic cablepower lineprinter cable

   Part oftelephone systemcable

Questions about transmission line

What does transmission line mean?

transmission line means "a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power".

What is another word for transmission line?

Close synonyms include cable, line. 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 transmission line a common word?

transmission line 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.