telpherage

/'telfəridʤ/

Thân thiện

A small telpherage car carries a load of timber across the valley.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A transportation system using suspended electric cars: A system of transportation in which cars (called telphers) are suspended from an overhead cable or rail and are electrically powered for movement.

Usage

• Noun:
  • The factory installed a telpherage system to move materials efficiently between buildings.
  • Early 20th-century industrial sites sometimes utilized telpherage for internal logistics.

Advanced Usage

• The term is primarily historical and technical, often describing early industrial or mining transport systems that were precursors to modern automated cable transport or gondola systems.
• It can be used metaphorically to describe any system of suspended, guided transport, though this is rare.

Variants and Related Words

• Telpher (noun): An individual electrically powered car or carrier that runs on a telpherage system.
  • The loaded telpher moved silently along the cable.

Synonyms

• Aerial tramway
• Cableway
• Overhead conveyor system

Related Phrases

• Telpherage line: The specific route or cable on which the telphers operate.
  • The telpherage line spanned the entire length of the quarry.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity

Từ đồng nghĩa

• telferage