'Funicular' definitions:
Definition of 'funicular'
From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway"
noun
A railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars [syn: cable railway, funicular, funicular railway]
Definition of 'Funicular'
From: GCIDE
- Funicular \Fu*nic"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. funiculaire.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Consisting of a small cord or fiber. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Dependent on the tension of a cord. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament. [1913 Webster]
- Funicular action (Mech.), the force or action exerted by a rope in drawing together the supports to which its ends are Fastened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the archer's bow.
- Funicular curve. Same as Catenary.
- Funicular machine (Mech.), an apparatus for illustrating certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley.
- Funicular polygon (Mech.), the polygonal figure assumed by a cord fastened at its extremities, and sustaining weights at different points. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'funicular'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Amtrak,
- baggage train,
- cable railroad,
- cable railway,
- cableway,
- capillary,
- choo-choo,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- express,
- express train,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- flier,
- flossy,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular railway,
- goods train,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- interurban,
- ligamental,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- local,
- metro,
- milk train,
- monorail,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- railroad train,
- rattler,
- rolling stock,
- rope railway,
- ropy,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- silky,
- ski lift,
- special,
- streamliner,
- stringy,
- subway,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- telpher,
- telpher line,
- telpher ropeway,
- telpherway,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- train,
- tube,
- underground,
- way train,
- wire ropeway,
- wireway,
- wiry