Meanings
- not comparableRelating to more than one mode of transport.
an intermodal station which provides transfers between buses and trains
2 more examples
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.
2019 October, Steve Stubbs (photo caption), “New GBRf intermodal service”, in Modern Railways, page 20It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era.
2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
- Proto-Italic*n̥ter
- Latininter
- Latininter-
- Englishinter-
- Englishmodal
- Englishintermodal
Translations
French intermodal
- intermodalRelating to more than one mode of transport
Greek διατροπικός
- διατροπικός (diatropikós)Relating to more than one mode of transport
Persian ایستگاههای چندگانه
- ایستگاههای چندگانهRelating to more than one mode of transport
Spanish intermodal
- intermodalRelating to more than one mode of transport
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Cite this entry
intermodal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intermodal
“intermodal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intermodal. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intermodal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intermodal.
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