What is this type of circuit called in the NEC?

[jeff48356]

Suppose a 14-2 NM cable is run to a 2-gang switch box. A 14-3 cable is run so that the black wire powers one light and the red wire powers a different one beyond the first one. The neutral is common.

It's not a multiwire branch circuit, since that's something totally different. What would such a circuit be called?

 

[iwire]

To the NEC it is just a branch circuit.

 

[jeff48356]

To the NEC it is just a branch circuit.

OK. But do electricians have a special name among themselves for this type of configuration

 

[GoldDigger]

OK. But do electricians have a special name among themselves for this type of configuration

Not that I know of.
It is just two load circuits run in the same cable as part of a single branch circuit (assuming both wires go back to the same breaker, since otherwise you would have either an MWBC or an illegal circuit.)

 

[Dennis Alwon]

Its a feed with a switch leg. No special name other than to say run a 3 wire to the box.

 

[infinity]

To me it's just a 3-wire cable with two switch legs.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

To me it's just a 3-wire cable with two switch legs.

Yes, in his situation that is correct - I was thinking where you need a feed and a switch leg but that is because I didn't read the op situation carefully...