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STANDARD CELL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force
Classified under:
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))