Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a cell.
- adjective Consisting of or containing a cell or cells.
- adjective Of or involving the cells of an organization or movement.
- adjective Of or relating to a cellular telephone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Filled with cavities, as pumice.
- Consisting of, containing, or resembling cells; pertaining to a cell or to cells: as, cellular structure; a cellular appearance.
- noun In botany, a plant having no spiral vessels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
- adjective porous; containing cavities.
- adjective pertaining to or using a system of transmission of telephone signals by radio, in which areas are divided into geographical parts (cells), each of which is served by a transmitter whose range is limited to that region, thus permitting a single transmission frequency to be used simulataneously in different parts of the same area.
Cellular telephones are typically small and battery powered, allowing a subscriber with such a telephone to carry the telephone in a pocket or purse, over the entire area served, and to be contacted by a single telephone number. The system became widespread and popular in the 1980's and 1990's. - adjective (Bot.) those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ.
- adjective (Biol.) a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants and animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other.
- adjective (Anat.), (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a
cell or cells. - noun US, informal A
cellular phone (mobile phone ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to cells
- adjective characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term cellular atypia is sometimes used for the same purpose.
Recent Activity callkm 2010
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Here Gloria brilliantly discusses the changing position of women throughout history and what she describes as a "cellular homesickness" that humanity feels for a past, more egalitarian time.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom: Gloria Steinem for Miss Representation: What's New Is Old Jennifer Siebel Newsom 2011
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According to Dr. Geim, that could make it an ideal candidate as a material for high-speed transistors used in cellular phones, for electrodes used in DNA sequencing machines, and other electronic devices.
Ultrathin Carbon Earns Nobel Gautam Naik 2010
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Instructions within cellular genomes reveal what life is.
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But the road to its discovery and understanding of its critical and almost universal role as energy provider in cellular processes began with and led through the analysis of creatine phosphate.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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Although there are known problems with sending out tweets via SMS on certain cellular phone networks in Azerbaijan, one foreign blogger, International Federation of Liberal Youth General Secretary Bart Woord, updated followers from his Blackberry via Twitter's web interface.
Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Bloggers speak about Baku youth protest, detentions 2009
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Instructions within cellular genomes reveal what life is.
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The mechanisms of oxidation, respiration and fermentation in cellular processes were particularly important research topics during this time.
The Foundation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research 2010
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If initial cells resulted from directed forces evidence for this might be found in cellular constructive design.
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It is a physiological way of preventing abnormal proliferation of activated lymphocyte clones, but here the phenomenon was enormous and bore not only on the main cellular target of HIV infection, CD4+ T-lymphocytes, but also on cells which were not infectable by the virus, such as CD8+ T-lymphocytes, B-lymphocytes, monocytes, natural killer cells ...
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