CABLE TELEVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cable television mean? 

• CABLE TELEVISION (noun)
  The noun CABLE TELEVISION has 2 senses:

1. television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

2. a television system that transmits over cables

  Familiarity information: CABLE TELEVISION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CABLE TELEVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cable; cable television

Hypernyms ("cable television" is a kind of...):

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A television system that transmits over cables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cable; cable system; cable television; cable television service

Hypernyms ("cable television" is a kind of...):

television; television system (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)

Meronyms (parts of "cable television"):

cable; line; transmission line (a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power)