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Definition of Jumper cable

1. Noun. A jumper that consists of a short piece of wire. "It was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads"

Definition of Jumper cable

1. Noun. (often pluralized) A pair of insulated electrical wires used to jump-start a car with a dead battery. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumper Cable

Literary usage of Jumper cable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electrical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Hand-book of Useful Data for by Horatio Alvah Foster (1908)
"The jumper cable is made with an outside rubber jacket protected by two braida, the outer being of the best linen thread. It is made very flexible for ..."

2. EMF Electrical Year Book by Electrical Trade Publishing Company (1921)
"This Is composed of the same kind of conductors with an outer rubber coating and two layers of saturated braid. Another form, known as car jumper cable, ..."

3. Electricity at the Columbian Exposition: Including an Account of the by John Patrick Barrett (1894)
"... did not run to the regular local board, but were connected by a 50 pair Jumper cable to the private 45 drop exchange in the secret service headquarters. ..."

4. Journal of the New England Water Works Association by New England Water Works Association (1915)
"In repairing gas pipes it is necessary to put a jumper cable around a proposed break in the pipe in order to avoid the possibility of causing an explosion ..."

5. The Electrification of Railway Terminals as a Cure for the Locomotive Smoke by Milton J. Foreman, William Augustus Evans, Paul P Bird, Gilbert E Ryder, Herbert H Evans (1908)
"Each jumper-cable end has a copper lug sweated on it with four 400000- circular-mil. copper cables attached (in the case of the 1000000-cir- cular-mil. ..."

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