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CELLULAR TELEPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cellular telephone mean? 

CELLULAR TELEPHONE (noun)
  The noun CELLULAR TELEPHONE has 1 sense:

1. a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiverplay

  Familiarity information: CELLULAR TELEPHONE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CELLULAR TELEPHONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cell; cellphone; cellular phone; cellular telephone; mobile phone

Hypernyms ("cellular telephone" is a kind of...):

radiophone; radiotelephone; wireless telephone (a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables)


 Context examples 


The sequence of numbers or characters, that when dialed, connects to a particular cellular telephone.

(Cellular Telephone Number, NCI Thesaurus)



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