Glossary of cable laying and installation terms
289 terms of cable laying, drum handling, accessories, earthing and bonding and tests after installation: a short definition of each and its names in every language of this site, each with its source.
Definitions are short and in our own words; outside English and Turkish they are our own translation. A Turkish name taken from a document (EKAT, TEDAŞ, the HES catalogue, Nexans Türkiye) names it; every other name is our own translation and says so.
No term matches.
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B
C
- cable accessory
- cable cleat
- cable coil
- cable creepage (cable make)
- cable drum (reel)
- cable end mark
- cable gland
- cable label
- cable ladder
- cable laying
- cable locator
- cable lug
- cable pusher (caterpillar)
- cable retention
- cable route
- cable stocking (pulling grip)
- cable tie
- cable tray
- cable trough (cable channel)
- capacitive test point
- capstan formula
- capstan winch
- cement-bound sand
- circulating current
- cleaning tissue
- clearance (in conduit)
- cleat spacing
- coefficient of friction
- cold flow
- cold shrink
- commissioning
- compression lug
- conductor screen
- conduit
- conduit fill
- connector (ferrule)
- constant force spring
- continuity test
- core marking
- corner roller
- cosine-rectangular wave
- cradled configuration
- creepage distance
- crimping
- cross-bonding
- crossing
- crown (of apparatus)
- current sharing
- cut-back
- cutback
D
E
F
G
H
I
- impulse test
- increased safety (Ex e)
- indoor termination
- inspection on receipt
- installation instruction
- installation radius (dynamic)
- installation test
- insulating rod
- insulation polishing
- insulation resistance
- insulation resistance tester
- insulation screen
- interference fit
- intermediate restraint
- intrinsic safety (Ex i)
- IP code
- ISPM 15 treatment
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L
M
N
O
P
- parallel running (proximity)
- partial discharge
- payout (unreeling)
- PD inception voltage
- peak short-circuit current
- peeling tool
- pencilling
- penetration seal
- phase arrangement
- phasing
- ploughing in
- plug-in connector
- pre-warming (pre-heating)
- preassembled cable
- protection tile (cover slab)
- pulling calculation
- pulling clamp
- pulling eye
- pulling head
- pulling lubricant
- pulling protocol (pulling record)
- pulling rope
- pulling speed
- pulling tension
- push-on (premoulded)
R
S
- sacrificial length
- saddle (clip)
- safe working load
- sag
- salt fog test
- sealing mastic
- sealing washer
- semi-conducting oversheath layer
- semicon residue
- separable connector
- shear bolt
- sheath removal
- sheath repair sleeve
- sheath sectionalising insulation
- sheath test (oversheath d.c. test)
- sheath voltage limiter
- sheave
- shelf life
- short-circuit force
- sidewall bearing pressure (SWBP)
- sieved sand
- silicone grease
- single-core system
- single-point bonding
- skid plate (duct mouth guide)
- snaking
- soil drying
- soil thermal resistivity
- solar radiation protection
- solid bonding
- solid brick
- space charge
- spacing between cables
- spindle (axle)
- spindle plate
- spreader bar
- standing voltage
- static radius (fixed)
- steel drum
- steel tape armour
- steel wire armour
- stop end
- straight joint
- straight roller
- stress cone
- stress control
- stress control mastic
- stress control tube
- stringing tension
- strippable screen
- swivel
T
- T rating
- T-connector
- tan delta
- tare weight
- tension recorder
- termination
- test certificate
- tests after installation test after installation
- thermal backfill
- thermal expansion (thermomechanical force)
- thermal time constant (of a drum)
- tinned copper braid
- tip-up
- top payout / bottom payout
- training radius
- transition joint
- traverse (inner width)
- trefoil cleat
- trefoil formation
- trench
- triangular configuration
- Type II joint
- type test
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W
Definitions are short and in our own words; for a given job the cable's standard and the maker's instructions decide.