cell phone
See also: cellphone and cell-phone
English
Alternative forms
- cellphone (mainly US and Canada)
- cell-phone (mainly US and Canada)
Etymology
From cellular phone.
Noun
cell phone (plural cell phones)
- A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.
Synonyms
- cell
- cellular mobile, cellular, cellular telephone, cellular phone
- handphone (mainly Asia)
- mobile (mainly UK and Australia)
- mobile phone
- wireless phone
Hypernyms
- See also Thesaurus:phone
Translations
mobile phone — see mobile phone
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