mobile phone
- any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
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Origin of mobile phone
First recorded in 1945–50
Also called mobile telephone.
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Contemporary Examples
There you can find out exactly what kind of a shadow your computer and mobile-phone usage casts.
Merely acquiring a mobile-phone account remains an exercise in red tape and graft.
Right now, there are different models for the two kinds of mobile-phone networks.
Many were anxiously trying to reach family and friends, because a number of mobile-phone lines had been disrupted.
After all, this is the supermodel known as much for her beauty as for mobile-phone assaults on her staff.
mobile phone
- a portable telephone that works by means of a cellular radio system
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