English Dictionary: cellular | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for cellular | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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 automaton} programming by J Dana Eckart 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) |