MOBILE PHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mobile phone mean? 

• MOBILE PHONE (noun)
  The noun MOBILE PHONE has 1 sense:

1. a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

  Familiarity information: MOBILE PHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOBILE PHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cell; cellphone; cellular phone; cellular telephone; mobile phone

Hypernyms ("mobile phone" is a kind of...):

radiophone; radiotelephone; wireless telephone (a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables)

 Context examples 

In the quest to bring technologies closer to the end-user, one particular tool that is increasingly being used for wider purposes than those originally conceived is the mobile phone.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

Several high-tech companies are teaming up on a plan to put a mobile phone network on the moon next year.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

For two weeks, a special mobile phone app, called Paco, randomly prompted the participants eight times a day to answer questions about their current activity and states of mind.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Study involving nearly 700 adolescents in Switzerland found that memory performance of specific brain regions exposed to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields during mobile phone use may be adversely affected.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Following complaints about mobile phone antennae a consultation was organised by the Walloon Region in Belgium.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Figural memory is mainly located in the right brain hemisphere and association with RF-EMF was more pronounced in adolescents using the mobile phone on the right side of the head.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There are 3 mobile phone operators and one radio antenna, an FM radio, so modulated frequencies.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

To operate, the entire system only requires a functioning mobile phone battery, via the NFC link, with no need for any additional plugs or batteries.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)

Potential risks to the brain can be minimised by using headphones or the loud speaker while calling, in particular when network quality is low and the mobile phone is functioning at maximum power.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

No, this is not your mobile phone.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)