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English Dictionary: cellular by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cellular
adj
  1. relating to cells; "cellular walls"; "cellular physiology"
  2. 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"
    Antonym(s): acellular, noncellular
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cellular \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[91].
  
      {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.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Cellular
  
      cellular automaton> A system for {cellular
      automaton} programming by J Dana Eckart
      .   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}.
  
      (2000-10-07)
  
  
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