funicular

funicular
    adj 1: relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway"
    n 1: 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}]
    

Funicular \Fu*nic"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. funiculaire.]
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   1. Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
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   2. Dependent on the tension of a cord.
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   3. (Anat.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or
      resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular
      ligament.
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   {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.
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71 Moby Thesaurus words for "funicular":
      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