quaddedadj.
/ˈkwɒdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈkwɑdᵻd/ Telecommunications.
Esp. of a cable: that is in the form of a quad (quad n.6); made as a quad.
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multiplex1873
quadruplex1874
diplex1878
sextuplex1879
simplex1884
diode1886
hexode1886
tetrode1886
triode1886
octuplex1893
selective1906
quadded1914
multiplexed1964
muxed1991
1914 H. Pender Amer. Handbk. Electr. Engineers 1355 Quadded or phantomed cable,..a cable adapted for the use of phantom circuits.
1922 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 1 72 The cable is of quadded construction, that is, the wires are first wrapped with dry paper for insulation and twisted into pairs and then two pairs are twisted into what is called a quad.
2004 R. Burns Communications xviii. 452 For the European telephone network it was intended that telephone speech signals should be transmitted, without frequency translation, by quadded cables.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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