Funicular

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  funicular
       adj : relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway"
       n : a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable
           and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
           [syn: {cable railway}, {funicular railway}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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