ALL meanings of funicular
fu·nic·u·lar
F f - adjective funicular of or relating to a rope or cord, or its tension. 1
- adjective funicular worked by a rope or the like. 1
- noun funicular funicular railway. 1
- noun funicular (of a railroad, especially one on a mountainside) operating by cable with ascending and descending cars counterbalanced. 1
- noun funicular 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. 0
- adjective funicular Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable. 0
- adjective funicular (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed. 0
- singular noun funicular A funicular or a funicular railway is a type of railway which goes up a very steep hill or mountain. A machine at the top of the slope pulls the carriage up the rails by a steel rope. 0
- noun funicular 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 0
- adjective funicular relating to or operated by a rope, cable, etc 0
- adjective funicular of or relating to a funicle 0
- adjective funicular of or like a funiculus or funiculi 0
- adjective funicular of, worked by, or hanging from a rope or cable 0
- noun funicular a mountain railway on which counterbalanced cars on parallel sets of rails are pulled up and lowered by cables 0