funicular

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
2. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. (not-comparable) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
4. (not-comparable) 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.

Synonyms

cable railway

funicular railway

ropeway

cable car

cableway

incline

inclined plane

inclined railway

rope

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ski lift

tramway

telfer

telferage

aerial cableway

self-acting incline

gondola lift

aerial tramway

cliff railway

cable

cable pulley

cable tramway

Translations

funiculaire

funicolare

funicular

Seilbahn

funicular

Drahtseilbahn

Standseilbahn

lifli

kabelbaan

funicular

téléphérique

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τελεφερίκ

سِكَّة حَدِيد مُعَلَّقَة

Seilbahnwagen

Seilbahnkabine

Etymology

From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus.