Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A portable telephone that sends and receives radio signals through a network of short-range transmitters located in overlapping cells throughout a region, with a central station making connections to regular telephone lines.

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  • noun A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.

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  • verb call up by using a cellular phone

Etymologies

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English, from cellular, and telephone.

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