funicular.
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
Meaning & usage
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
Synonym of catenary.
Where this word comes from
From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
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