funicular
Other forms: funiculars
A funicular is a railway that goes up the side of a mountain. A funicular is pulled by a moving cable and involves complex, counterbalanced movements of the cars.
It's a coincidence that the word fun is in funicular, though riding a funicular would likely be very fun indeed: it's a railway that goes up a mountain. The real origin of the word has to do with ropes, cables, and pulleys and the complex way these devices are used to move things: such processes were called funicular. From there, funicular became the name of a train that used a similar cable-operated system to move.
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relating to or operated by a cable“funicular railway”
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a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending carssynonyms: cable railway, funicular railwaytype of:railroad, railroad line, railway, railway line, railway systemline that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
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