Trunking

Quick meaning: Trunking is a noun meaning All the electrical and communications cables bundled together and distributed through a building.

Meaning

All the electrical and communications cables bundled together and distributed through a building.

More Meanings

1. (UK) A system of ducts for cables, heating or ventilation.
2. (UK) Plastic conduit or duct used to conceal and protect electrical wiring.
3. A two-way radio technique that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios.
4. present participle and gerund of trunk
5. (business) The movement of containers or packages between a terminal and a transporter's inland facilities, or the scheduled transportation service between locations.

Example Sentences

But long-distance trunking, of course, is the cream of the road haulier's job as well as the railway's; hence the anguish.

Word Forms

• trunkings

Synonyms for trunking

Depending on context, synonyms include conduit, raceway, linehaul.

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