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Meaning of CELLULAR

Pronunciation:  'selyulur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  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"
  2. [adj]  (biology) relating to cells; "cellular walls"; "cellular physiology"
 
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 Synonyms: alveolate, cancellate, cancellated, cancellous, cavitied, cell-like, faveolate, honeycombed, multicellular, pitted
 
 Antonyms: acellular, noncellular
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Cel"lu*lar\, a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F.
cellulaire. See {Cellule}.]
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 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 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.
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

A system for cellular automaton programming by J Dana Eckart <[email protected]>. 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.

 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Seeing or using a cell phone in your dream indicates that you are being receptive to new information. It also represents your mobility. Dreaming that you lost your cell phone, represents a lack of communication. You have lost touch with some aspect of your feelings or your Self.
 

 

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