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Macrocell vs. Cell — What's the Difference?

Macrocell vs. Cell — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Macrocell and Cell

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Macrocell

A macrocell or macrosite is a cell in a mobile phone network that provides radio coverage served by a high power cell site (tower, antenna or mast). Generally, macrocells provide coverage larger than microcell.

Cell

A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.

Macrocell

The largest and most powerful type of mobile phone cell.

Cell

A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.

Cell

(Biology) The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm, usually one nucleus, and various other organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.
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Cell

(Architecture) See web.

Cell

The smallest organizational unit of a clandestine group or movement, such as a banned political movement or a terrorist group. A cell's leader is often the only person who knows members of the organization outside the cell.

Cell

A single unit for electrolysis or conversion of chemical into electric energy, usually consisting of a container with electrodes and an electrolyte; a battery. Also called electrochemical cell.

Cell

A single unit that converts radiant energy into electric energy
A solar cell.

Cell

A fuel cell.

Cell

A geographic area or zone surrounding a transmitter in a cellular telephone system.

Cell

A cellphone.

Cell

(Computers) A basic unit of storage in a computer memory that can hold one unit of information, such as a character or word.

Cell

A storm cell.

Cell

A small humble abode, such as a hermit's cave or hut.

Cell

A small religious house dependent on a larger one, such as a priory within an abbey.

Cell

A box or other unit on a spreadsheet or similar array at the intersection of a column and a row.

Cell

To store in a honeycomb.

Cell

To live in or share a prison cell.

Cell

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

Cell

A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

Cell

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

Cell

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

Cell

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

Cell

Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

Cell

(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

Cell

(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

Cell

A section or compartment of a larger structure.

Cell

Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

Cell

A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

Cell

(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

Cell

(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

Cell

(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

Cell

(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

Cell

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

Cell

(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

Cell

(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

Cell

(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. Category:en:Higher-dimensional geometry

Cell

(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

Cell

(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

Cell

(architecture) A cella.

Cell

(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

Cell

A cellular phone.

Cell

(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

Cell

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
The heroic confessor in his cell.

Cell

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Cell

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

Cell

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

Cell

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

Cell

One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

Cell

To place or inclose in a cell.

Cell

Any small compartment;
The cells of a honeycomb

Cell

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

Cell

A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

Cell

A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

Cell

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

Cell

Small room is which a monk or nun lives

Cell

A room where a prisoner is kept

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