wire rope
Noun
Meaning
wire rope (countable and uncountable, plural wire ropes)
A strong cable consisting of twisted strands of wire, generally intended for supporting heavy loads.
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Advantages A suspension bridge can be made out of simple materials such as wood and common wire rope.
In its heyday, Trenton was a world-class producer of rubber, steel, wire rope, and pottery.
The Moab Khutsong gold mine in North West Province (South Africa) has the world's longest winding steel wire rope, able to lower workers to convert in one uninterrupted four-minute journey.
The term wire is also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such strands, as in "multistranded wire", which is more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics, or a cable in electricity.
If a rope is made of wire, it maintains its rope name as in 'wire rope' halyard.