Electrical cable types

Basic cable types are as follows:

Shape

Ribbon cable

Construction

Based on architecture and cable properties, they can be sorted into the following:

Coaxial cable

Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable

Twinax cable

Flexible cables

Non-metallic sheathed cable (or nonmetallic architecture wire, NM, NM-B)1

Metallic sheathed cable (or armored cable, AC, or BX)1

Multicore cable (consist of added than one wire and is covered by cable jacket)

Shielded cable

Single cable (from time to time this name is acclimated for wire)

Twisted pair

Twisting cable

Special

Arresting cable

Bowden cable

Heliax cable

Direct-buried cable

Heavy-lift cable

Elevator cable