Crossword clues for cellular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cellular \Cel"lu*lar\ (s[e^]l"[u^]*l[~e]r; 135), a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F. cellulaire. See Cellule.]
Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
porous; containing cavities.
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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; as, cellular telephones sometimes lose their link unpredictably. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and alg[ae]. Cellular theory, or Cell theory (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. Cellular tissue.
(Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive.
(Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, with reference to cellular tissue, from Modern Latin cellularis "of little cells," from cellula "little cell," diminutive of cella (see cell). Of mobile phone systems (in which the area served is divided into "cells" of a few square miles served by transmitters), 1977. Related: Cellularity.
Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells. n. (context US informal English) A cellular phone (mobile phone).
WordNet
adj. relating to cells; "cellular walls"; "cellular physiology"
characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization); "the cellular construction of a beehive"; "any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular"; "a cellular phone uses a network of shortrange transmitters located in overlapping cells" [ant: noncellular]
Wikipedia
Cellular may refer to:
- Cellular automaton, a model in discrete mathematics
- Cell biology, the evaluation of cells work and more
- Cellular (film), a 2004 movie
- Cellular frequencies, assigned to networks operating in cellular RF bands
- Cellular manufacturing
- Cellular network, cellular telephone and non-telephone radio networks
- Mobile phone
- Mobile phone accessories
Cellular is a 2004 American action crime thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Jason Statham, Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, and William H. Macy. The screenplay was written by Chris Morgan, Larry Cohen, and J. Mackye Gruber (not credited).
Usage examples of "cellular".
The driver closed the doors, and Tania ran her hand over the armrest, only to discover that it was really a cellular phone.
He put the cellular in the palm of his hand and pressed another autodial key.
He took his cellular telephone from his pocket again and pressed an autodial key.
While the Lear was still slowing down on its landing roll at DCA, Castillo punched an autodial button on his cellular telephone.
He started to say something else but saw that she had her cellular telephone out and had punched an autodial button.
Schneider took a cellular phone from her purse and pushed an autodial button.
Lear was still slowing down on its landing roll at DCA, Castillo punched an autodial button on his cellular telephone.
The dumb bees from Maryville may have had a virus once that entered their cellular system and located there permanently, lowering their intelligence.
Vitaceae, Cucurbitaceae, and Bignoniaceae, in which slight pressure causes a cellular outgrowth.
They can be measured biochemically, in terms of a cellular cascade of processes which begins with the opening of ion channels in the synaptic membranes and proceeds by way of complex intracellular signals to the synthesis of new proteins which, inserted into the synaptic and dendritic membranes, are responsible for these morphological changes.
Later on, though, active biomineralization emerged: crystal structures deliberately precipitated by cellular activity.
From a compartment in the container he took a biosensor, an instrument so sensitive that at five hundred meters it registered strongly the cellular metabolism of a moth.
All four embryos were in the so-called blastocyst stage, in which the future child consists of a small cellular cluster at one end of a hollow ball of cells that will eventually form the fetal part of the placenta.
There were fewer elderly people dressed for vacationing, and more dark-suited businesspeople with grim, worried expressions on their faces and cellular telephones pressed to their ears.
The features and benefits of cellular phones for the businessperson include convenience, time management, cost savings, accessibility and service.