cellular

Etymology

From New Latin cellulāris, from cellula (“cell”) + -āris.

adj

  1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
    The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems. 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 2017-04-27, page 171

noun

  1. (US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).
    MULDER: Yeah, Eddie, this is all good stuff. Yeah, see what else you can find on him from the N.C.I.C. and call me back. At, at this number or on my cellular. 1994, "Red Museum", (episode of The X-Files TV series)

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