English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ cable.

Adjective

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noncable (not comparable)

  1. Not of or pertaining to cable television.
    • 2008 May 14, James Barron, “When an Anchor Curses on the Air, She Becomes the Night’s Top Story”, in New York Times[1]:
      But she used a word seldom heard on the noncable air, and then only by accident —— a word that is not publishable in the newspaper.