Definition of Funicular in English :

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Funicular meaning in English

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Funicular

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Noun

1. cable railway, funicular, funicular railway

a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars

Adjective

2. funicular

relating to or operated by a cable

Example Sentences:
'funicular railway'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Funicular

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noun
1. Also called: funicular railway
a railway up the side of a mountain, consisting of a counterbalanced car sat either end of a cable passing round a driving wheel at the summit
adjective
2. 
relating to or operated by a rope, cable, etc
3. 
of or relating to a funicle

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Funicular

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adjective
1. 
of or like a funiculus or funiculi
2. 
of, worked by, or hanging from a rope or cable
noun
3. 
a mountain railway on which counterbalanced cars on parallel sets of rails are pulled up and lowered by cables
: also funicular railway

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Funicular

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adj.
1. Of, relating to, or resembling a rope or cord.
2. Operated or moved by a cable.
3. Of, relating to, or constituting a funiculus.
n.
A cable railway on a steep incline, especially such a railway with simultaneously ascending and descending cars counterbalancing one another.

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