intermodal
English
Adjective
intermodal (not comparable)
- Relating to more than one mode of transport.
- an intermodal station which provides transfers between buses and trains
- 2019 October, Steve Stubbs (photo caption), “New GBRf intermodal service”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
- Boxes from Southampton: In September, GB Railfreight began a new intermodal service from Solent Stevedores to Manchester. [...] This is the third daily working GBRf offers serving Southampton and GBRf's 17th intermodal service to date; it runs five days per week.
- 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49:
- It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era.
Usage notes
- When discussing freight, intermodal usually refers to land/sea containers.
Translations
Relating to more than one mode of transport
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See also
- balanced transportation
- containerised
- intermodalism
- transloading
- transshipment
References
- “intermodal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.mɔ.dal/
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Adjective
intermodal (feminine intermodale, masculine plural intermodaux, feminine plural intermodales)
Spanish
Further reading
- “intermodal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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