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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cellular
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cellular phone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
carrier
▪ In recent years, the vulnerability of analog transmission has become a problem for both cellular carriers and consumers.
▪ The new players are working to match the roaming capabilities and phone choices offered by cellular carriers.
company
▪ They own a lot of different pieces of cellular companies abroad.
level
▪ The other IgG subclasses were not correlated at the cellular level in either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease twins.
▪ The dynamical consequences at the cellular level of these feedback relationships are not yet fully characterized.
▪ His own diagnostic machine called the Dielectric Diagnostic Analyser, employs computerised biofeedback techniques to determine energy disturbances at cellular level.
mechanism
▪ The cellular mechanism of action of ethanol, however, remains to be fully elucidated.
▪ Some of the cellular mechanisms for adaptation which underlie this latter process are now known.
network
▪ Now, however, no fewer than 23 countries have cellular networks up and running.
▪ The state-run telephone company now says it wants to run its own cellular network.
operation
▪ The company has also been asked to consider spinning cellular operations into a separate company.
phone
▪ A new cellular phone has been introduced which directly links the car to emergency aid within seconds.
▪ Records of several cellular phone conversations between Ramsey and other individuals confirmed this, Wasserman said.
▪ And call charges on the handyphone are about half those for cellular phones.
▪ It has the highest per capita use of cellular phones.
▪ Eo Phone for connecting a cellular phone system.
▪ But off premises, the pocket phone operates as an ordinary cellular phone.
▪ Nelson used a cellular phone to contact her rescuers, although the storm kept them from responding immediately.
proliferation
▪ This could result from bile acid mediated effects on cellular proliferation through several possible pathways as already discussed.
▪ Both are characterised by a focal or multifocal pattern of distribution, abnormal cellular proliferation, and a genetic component.
▪ Conversely, a low fibre diet did not lead to changes in cellular proliferation which might be associated with mucosal instability.
service
▪ In the United States, cellular service in most areas is limited to voice calls.
▪ They get the phones for free because cellular service companies buy them from Motorola and other manufacturers.
system
▪ The company also is developing equipment that will allow computer data to be transmitted over cellular systems.
▪ Much of the functionality of cellular systems lies in the microprocessors that operate both the subscriber units and the infrastructure.
telephone
▪ His cellular telephone rings in the Bull's car.
▪ Syndicated columnist Robert Novak chatted loudly with an editor on his cellular telephone.
▪ Motorola Inc., a bellwether maker of semiconductors and cellular telephones, dropped 1 to 49 1 / 8.
▪ As he roared by, the man never saw me or stopped blabbing into his cellular telephone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cellular biology
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Now, however, no fewer than 23 countries have cellular networks up and running.
▪ The cellular source of the catalytically active PLA2 in serum of patients suffering from acute pancreatitis and other diseases is unknown.
▪ The analysis reported here has been motivated by investigations of high-frequency cellular oscillators with periods of the order of minutes or less.
▪ Therefore, this region may confer some degree of specialization to the protein, in terms of cellular location and/or tissue specificity.
▪ Two trends-digital networks and competition-are now changing the cellular landscape.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cellular

Cellular \Cel"lu*lar\ (s[e^]l"[u^]*l[~e]r; 135), a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F. cellulaire. See Cellule.]

  1. Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.

  2. porous; containing cavities.

  3. 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.

    1. (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive.

    2. (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cellular

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
cellular

a. Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells. n. (context US informal English) A cellular phone (mobile phone).

WordNet
cellular
  1. adj. relating to cells; "cellular walls"; "cellular physiology"

  2. 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

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 (film)

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.