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rapid transit

rapid transit 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.

Noun

rapid transit (countable and uncountable, plural rapid transits)

  1. 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.

rapid transit meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Vietnamese

rapid transit in Hindi

commuter rail system
त्वरित परिवहन tvarit parivhan

rapid transit in Tamil

விரைவுப் போக்குவரத்து

rapid transit in Vietnamese

commuter rail system
đường sắt đô thị

Forms of rapid transit

pluralrapid transits

Questions about rapid transit

What does rapid transit mean?
Rapid transit means 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.
What is rapid transit in Hindi?
Rapid transit in Hindi is त्वरित परिवहन (tvarit parivhan). See Rapid transit meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is rapid transit?
Rapid transit is a noun.
What is the plural of rapid transit?
The plural of rapid transit is rapid transits.

Words near rapid transit in the dictionary

  1. rapid rectangular flashing beacons
  2. rapid response system
  3. rapid response systems
  4. rapid response team
  5. rapid response teams
  6. rapid transit
  7. rapid transits
  8. rapid unplanned disassemblies
  9. rapid unplanned disassembly
  10. rapid unscheduled disassemblies
  11. rapid unscheduled disassembly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapid transit (page history and authors); rapid transit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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