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What is the difference between a cable, a cord and a wire? In German it is all the same.
Well being someone from the electrical field I can tell you that it's not straight forward. Usually the terminology is mangled outside the industry.
We typically don't use 'cord' in the industry, that's typically a household term. So you have an appliance cord. Cable/cord are basically the same.
A cable is typically something that either has a single wire (core) or multiple wires (cores). The proper terminology for this is single core cable and multicore cable. In everyday speech the cable usually represents multicore cable. So an Ethernet cable, a power cable for laptops or computers.
When you say 'wire' your typically talking about a single core, usually a small core, like from an Ethernet cable, you have a single core or individual wire. If you have a group of cores you can say wires. We don't use the term wire in the industry as it can be confusing.
Not sure that helped but that's the basics.