Found 3 hits - Term: cellular, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cellular \cel"lular\ se^l"u^l~er; 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.
1913 webster
2. porous; containing cavities.
pjc
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.
pjc
cellular plants, cellular cryptogams bot., those
flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their
tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algae.
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.
a anat. see conjunctive tissue under conjunctive.
b bot. tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and
having no woody fiber or ducts.
1913 webster
see also:
cellule cellular plants cellular cryptogams cellular theory cell theory cellular tissue
conjunctive tissue conjunctive
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cellular
adj 1: 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
see also:
noncellular
- [3] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
cellular
a system for cellular
automaton programming by j dana eckart
. cellular includes a byte-code
compiler, run-time system, and a viewer.
latest version: 2.0, as of 1993-04-03.
posted to comp.sources.unix, volume 26.
see also cellang.
2000-10-07
see also:
cellular automaton byte-code compiler run-time system cellang
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