STANDARD CELL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("standard cell" is a kind of...):

galvanic cell; primary cell; voltaic cell (an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy; cannot be recharged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standard cell"):

Clark cell; Clark standard cell (a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force)

cadmium cell; Weston cell (a standard voltaic cell (trademark Weston))

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