WordNet
n. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction [syn: cell]
Usage examples of "electric cell".
Radio wave that activates an electric cell that burns the wire in a mercury fulminate detonator.
Oxygen was produced from the water by electrolysis, a process she remembered from her own high school days, where an electric cell broke up the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.
This operated an ultraviolet light projector on the front of the sedan, and the beam in turn actuated a photo-electric cell which caused the great door in the front of the warehouse hangar to slide open.
These had operated a special photo-electric cell concealed in the front of the great barn of a building.
You think we might have something as simple as a photo-electric cell which can only find a light.
The receiver is a screen sensitive to the emanations in the same way that a photo-electric cell is sensitive to light.
I could have been nvisible to Thett's ships as we followed them here, and for he greater part of the way I was, for I was sufficiently out of their time-rate, so that they were visible only by the hort ultra-violet, which would have put in their infra-red, ind, no photo-electric cell will work on quanta of such low energy.
An outside light, operated by a photo-electric cell, went out when the object appeared.