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語源

From inter- +‎ modal.

形容詞

intermodal (not comparable)

1. 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.

使用する際の注意点

• When discussing freight, intermodal usually refers to land/sea containers.

派生語

参考

名詞

intermodal (plural intermodals)

1. A shipping container for intermodal use.

参照

• “intermodal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• intramodel, mildronate, tremolandi