Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament
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
{i} funicular railway, steep railway operated by means of a cable which raises and lowers the cars (often with the ascending car counterbalancing the descending one)
A funicular or a funicular railway is a type of railway which goes up a very steep hill or mountain. A machine at the top of the slope pulls the carriage up the rails by a steel rope. a small railway that carries people up and down a steep hill or mountain, pulled by a thick metal rope (funiculus , from funis )
a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars