escalator

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Anything that escalates.
2. A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
3. An upward or progressive course.
4. An escalator clause.

Verb

To move by escalator.

Conceptos

escalera mecánica

escalera eléctrica

escalera automática

escalera móvil

escalera rodante

Sinónimos

moving staircase

moving stairway

escalator clause

stairmoving

moving staircase/stairway

Traducciones

scala mobile

Rolltreppe

escalator

roltrap

escada rolante

escalier mécanique

escalateur

escalier roulant

Fahrtreppe

سلم متحرك

yürüyen merdiven

κινούμενη σκάλα

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/

Etimología (Inglés)

From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin e (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency. See the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by escalate, and is equivalent to escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.