CELLULAR

cellular

(adjective) 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”

cellular

(adjective) relating to cells; “cellular walls”; “cellular physiology”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

cellular (comparative more cellular, superlative most cellular)

Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.

Noun

cellular (plural cellulars)

(US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).

Hypernyms

• See also phone

Source: Wiktionary

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Cel"lu*lar, a. Etym: [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F. cellulaire. See Cellule.]

Definition: Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ.

– 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 ans 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. cellular telephone, a portable radio- telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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