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rapid transit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables
rapid -tran-sit
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

rapid transits (plural)

Synonyms

mass rapid transit

Questions

What does rapid transit mean?
A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.

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