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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English modal English intermodal From inter- + modal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to more than one mode of transport.
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 20:an intermodal station which provides transfers between buses and trains
It 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:
Deriveds
Relateds
balanced transportation · intermodalism · transshipment · containerised · transloading
Translations (4)
es intermodal (Relating to more than one mode of transport) · fa ایستگاههای چندگانه (Relating to more than one mode of transport) · el διατροπικός (Relating to more than one mode of transport) · fr intermodal (Relating to more than one mode of transport)