{
  "id": "cable.electrical",
  "term": "cable",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A piece of metal used to carry current.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "metal.element",
      "piece.portion",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "current.fluid",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "The metal portion carries the flow of current through controlled movement.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "controlled conduction path",
      "directed energy transfer",
      "continuous contact medium"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The aluminum-conductor steel-reinforced cable of the 1974 Itaipu Dam power transmission line carried 6.3 gigawatts across 800 kilometers.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The copper cable in a 2017 MacBook Pro delivered 100 watts to charge the battery at up to 20 volts and 5 amps.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The High-Z submarine power cable linking Norway to the UK, completed in 2021, conducts 1.4 gigawatts of alternating current through the North Sea.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "current.fluid",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "cable",
    "cabled",
    "cables",
    "cabling"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition. No factual error; definition remained as-is."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cable.electrical"
}