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A cable length or length of cable is a nautical unit of measure equal to one tenth of a nautical mile or approximately 100 fathoms. The unit is named after the length of a ship's anchor cable in the Age of Sail. The definition varies:
Terameter or teramatre is equal to 1E+12 (1012) meters (unit of length), comes from a combination of the metric prefix tera (T) and the SI unit of length meter (m). Plural name is terameters.