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Relating to cells, the tiny building blocks that make up living things — "cellular biology" studies how cells work. In everyday life, "cellular" is also used for mobile phones and their network, because the phone system is divided into small areas called "cells" — that's where "cell phone" and "cellular data" come from.
細胞的（生物學）；行動網路的、蜂巢式的（手機）
組成cell + "-ular" (an ending meaning "relating to").
同家族的字
- cellthe base word; cellular means relating to cells, whether living cells or the "cells" of a phone network
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cellularadj/ˈsɛl.ju.lə/
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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.
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Light to mid-weight, having a regular cell-like construction with small perforations, generally woven; (of a garment) made of such a fabric.
- a cellular sports shirt
- for man is born free but everywhere is in cellular underwear
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communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringUsing cells (local groups of devices sharing a transceiver).
- cellular network
- The reason the network can work is that it is cellular: devices within a certain area are connected to a tower that is not far away.
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communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringUsing such a network.
- cellular phone
- cellular data
cellularnoun/ˈsɛl.ju.lə/
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informalA cellular phone (mobile phone).
- If there's no answer on his office landline then you should call his cellular.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。