cellular

See also: cel·lular

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Adjective

cellular (comparative more cellular, superlative most cellular)

1. Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
   • 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171:

     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.

Derived terms

• acellular
• adipocellular
• aerocellular
• basocellular
• bicellular
• cellular automaton
• cellular debris
• cellular glass insulation
• cellularisation
• cellularity
• cellularization
• cellularize
• cellular kite
• cellularly
• cellular mobile
• cellular phone
• cellular telephone
• cellular therapy
• cellular virome
• cholangiocellular
• chronic cellular dehydration
• circumcellular
• cylindrocellular
• endocellular
• epicellular
• exocellular
• extracellular
• fibrinocellular
• fibrocellular
• floating cellular data
• hepatocellular
• heterocellular
• homocellular
• hypercellular
• hypocellular
• intercellular
• intracellular
• isocellular
• juxtacellular
• koniocellular
• macrocellular
• magnocellular
• microcellular
• monocellular
• multicellular
• myocellular
• nevocellular
• noncellular
• normocellular
• octocellular
• oligocellular
• pancellular
• paracellular
• parvicellular
• parvocellular
• paucicellular
• pericellular
• picocellular
• pleocellular
• pluricellular
• precellular
• quadricellular
• serocellular
• squamocellular
• subcellular
• supracellular
• transcellular
• tricellular
• ultracellular
• unicellular

 

Translations

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

• Arabic: خَلَوِيّ‎ (ḵalawiyy)
• Armenian: բջջային (hy) (bǰǰayin)
• Belarusian: кле́тачны (kljétačny), камо́ркавы (kamórkavy)
• Bulgarian: кле́тъчен (bg) (klétǎčen)
• Catalan: cel·lular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 細胞的／细胞的 (zh) (xìbāo de), 蜂窩狀／蜂窝状 (fēngwōzhuàng)

• Czech: buněčný (cs)
• Danish: cellulær, celle- (da)
• Dutch: cellulair (nl), cel- (nl)
• Estonian: raku-
• Finnish: solu-, solumainen
• French: cellulaire (fr), celluleux (fr)
• Georgian: ფიჭური (pič̣uri)
• German: Zellen- (de), zellulär (de)
• Greek: κυτταρικός (el) m (kyttarikós)
• Hebrew: תָּאִי‎ m (taí)
• Hindi: सेलुलर (selular)
• Hungarian: celluláris (hu), sejtes (hu), sejtszerű
• Ido: celula (io)
• Indonesian: selular, seluler (id)
• Interlingua: cellular
• Italian: cellulare (it)
• Japanese: 細胞の (ja) (さいぼうの, saibō no)
• Kazakh: жасушалық (jasuşalyq)
• Korean: 세포의 (ko) (sepo-ui)
• Latvian: šūnas
• Lithuanian: ląstelinis
• Macedonian: клеточен (kletočen) (of organisms), ќелиен (ḱelien)
• Malay: selular
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эсийн (mn) (esiin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cellulær (no), sellulær, celle- (no), selle- (no)

• Persian: سلولی‎ (fa) (seluli)
• Polish: komórkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: celular (pt) m, celular (pt)
• Romanian: celular (ro)
• Russian: кле́точный (ru) (klétočnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmarach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ћѐлӣјскӣ, ста̀ничнӣ

  Roman: ćèlījskī, stàničnī (sh)

• Slovak: bunkový
• Slovene: celičen (sl)
• Spanish: celular (es)
• Swedish: cellulär (sv), cell- (sv)
• Tagalog: maraming sela
• Tajik: ҳуҷайрагӣ (hujayragī)
• Ukrainian: кліткови́й (klitkovýj), комірко́вий (komirkóvyj)
• Uzbek: hujayra (uz)
• Vietnamese: di động (vi)
• Welsh: cellog m

Noun

cellular (plural cellulars)

1. (US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).
   • 1994, "Red Museum", (episode of The X-Files TV series)

     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.

Hypernyms

• See also Thesaurus:phone

Translations

mobile phone — see mobile phone

See also

• cell phone

Interlingua

Adjective

cellular (not comparable)

1. cellular

Related terms

• cellula