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Definition of Monorail
1. Noun. A railway having a single track.
Definition of Monorail
1. Noun. a railroad system where the trains run on one rail ¹
2. Noun. a train running on a single rail ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monorail
1. a single rail serving as a track for a wheeled vehicle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monorail
Literary usage of Monorail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lumber, Its Manufacture and Distribution by Ralph Clement Bryant (1922)
"A similar system is also used at some hardwood plants in this country- monorail.2 The
monorail system has recently been adapted to log storage and assorting ..."
2. The Indian Forester (1900)
"11 The monorail Portable Railway. Cheap transport being undoubtedly one of the
most pressing necessities of modern life, I have deemed it not unlikely that ..."
3. Lumber Manufacture in the Douglas Fir Region by Howard B. Oakleaf (1920)
"The capacity of monorail carriers depends on their size, the length of haul, ...
monorail LUMBER HANDLING COSTS The costs of handling lumber by means of a ..."
4. Transactions of the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, 1904 by International Electrical Congress (1905)
"THE monorail RAILWAY. BY FB BEHR. For many years eminent engineers, including the
... The Behr monorail is applicable to three distinct purpose?. namely, ..."
5. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"This is however better shown in this monorail top which runs along a wire on two
small wheels. With the weight above there is double instability: (1) for ..."
6. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"The inventor of this American monorail system is Howard H. Tunis, of Baltimore,
and he plans to run single cars for passengers only, these being fifty feet ..."
7. The Indian Forester (1905)
"monorail TK \\I\VAYS IN MADRAS.—Rao Sahib T. Namber- urnal Chetty, the well-known
contractor of Madras, has, in addition to the tramway concessions he ..."
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