funicular
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“cord”) + -culus.
[edit] Adjective
funicular (comparative more funicular, superlative most funicular)
- Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
- (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
[edit] Noun
funicular (plural funiculars)
- A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a 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.
[edit] Translations
rail trainsit system
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