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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A conducting cord with a plug at each end, used to make connections between circuit terminals at a patchboard.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a length of wire that has a plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard

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Examples

  • From it depended a length of patchcord terminating in prongs ... prongs that would fit the receptacle in the glittering plate he wore in his forehead.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Optical cord Patch cordBunched (ribbon) fan-out optical patchcord is protected and seperated fiber ribbon (usually 12 fibers) with connector on the end to realize the seperate fiber connection with the ODF.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2010

  • Optical cord Patch cord optical cord patchcord general 12 cores low insertion loss ...

    physicsworld.com: all content 2010

  • Optical cord Patch cordBunched (ribbon) fan-out optical patchcord is protected and seperated fiber ribbon (usually 12 fibers) with connector on the end to realize the seperate fiber connection with the ODF.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2010

  • Optical cord Patch cord optical cord patchcord general 12 cores low insertion loss ...

    physicsworld.com: all content 2010

  • "The availability of a particular patchcord is inversely proportional to its need."

    MATRIXSYNTH 2009

  • Arden Photonics Ltd announces the ModCon mode control patchcord.

    optics.org all content 2009

  • Arden Photonics Ltd announces the ModCon mode control patchcord.

    optics.org all content 2009

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