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cellular

/ˈsɛl.ju.lɚ/

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What does cellular mean?

adjective

  1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
  2. Light to mid-weight, having a regular cell-like construction with small perforations, generally woven; (of a garment) made of such a fabric.
  3. Using cells (local groups of devices sharing a transceiver).
More meanings (2)

adjective

  1. Using such a network.

noun

  1. (informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsɛl.ju.lɚ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈsɛl.jə.lɚ/
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After this description, I am not sorry that I denounced the cellular system as one of the madnesses of the nineteenth century.
Enrico FerriCriminal SociologyProject Gutenberg ebook #477
Theories are put forward, most learned theories, introducing capillary action, osmosis and cellular imbibition, to explain why the caulicle ascends and the radical descends.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
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Mackenzie mentions cases in which the orbit was more or less completely wanting and a mass of cellular tissue in each eye.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747
Virchow was not happy when he saw the young men pour into the old bottle of cellular pathology the new wine of bacteriology.
William, Sir OslerThe Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913Project Gutenberg ebook #1566