lead, cable and wire are synonymous? Or each one has their specific use?
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They probably have different technical definitions in different specialized fields. I've been tinkering with electronics and chatting with electrical engineers for decades.
To me, a "lead" means a wire that carries signal, not power, and often carries it to a measuring instrument. An oscilloscope has lead; a EKG has leads.
A "wire" means something with a single electrical conductor that is reasonably flexible, and has a simple cross-section.
A "cable" means something thick, with more than one conductor, and a complicated cross-section; a coaxial cable in which the ground conductor surrounds the signal wire; a flat ribbon cable that connects components inside a computer; an undersea fiber optic cable with hundreds of fibers.
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Assuming that this is in the context of electrical wiring, no they are not synonymous.
Leads in a wire are the ends of the electrical wire that have been stripped of insulation (jacketing).
Cable is thicker than wire, have a central core, and may or may not have other wires that surround that core.
Wire is a more generic term for conductors of electricity to/from a power source.
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