standard cell

American  

noun

Electricity.

1. a primary electric cell, as the Weston cell, that produces an accurately known constant voltage: used in scientific measurements.

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standard cell British  

noun

1. a voltaic cell producing a constant and accurately known electromotive force that can be used to calibrate voltage-measuring instruments

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Etymology

Origin of standard cell

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The results also suggest that OPA1 inhibitors may have benefits beyond restoring standard cell death pathways.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

Notice the negative value of the standard cell potential indicates the process is not spontaneous under standard conditions.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The relation between free energy change and standard cell potential confirms the sign conventions and spontaneity criteria previously discussed for both of these properties: spontaneous redox reactions exhibit positive potentials and negative free energy changes.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The positive value for the standard cell potential indicates the process is spontaneous under standard state conditions.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

To make a test like this we put a sensitive current-measuring instrument in the wire which leads from the positive terminal of the standard cell.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John