cellular telephone Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
cell; cellular phone; mobile phone; cellphone.
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- a portable radio-telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.