funicular

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
Synonym of catenary.

noun

A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

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funicular funiculars

From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.

catenary funicular railway cliff railway

intrafunicular perifunicular

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