TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transportation system mean? 

• TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

transit; transportation; transportation system

Hypernyms ("transportation system" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

Meronyms (parts of "transportation system"):

airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)

bridge; span (a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.)

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)

depot; terminal; terminus (station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods)

way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation system"):

air transportation system (a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air)

highway system (a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport)

public transit (a public transportation system for moving passengers)

short line (a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances)

telferage; telpherage (a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity)

Holonyms ("transportation system" is a part of...):

base; infrastructure (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area)