funiculars

Meaning of funiculars

noun

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.

Information about funiculars

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of funiculars is: funicular.
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Hyphenation of funiculars

fu-nic-u-lars

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
  • funiculars is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Words that rhyme with funiculars

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