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Pervious vs Cellular - What's the difference?

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Pervious is a related term of cellular.


As adjectives the difference between pervious and cellular

is that pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable while cellular is of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.

As a noun cellular is

(us|informal) a cellular phone (mobile phone).

pervious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
  • a pervious soil
  • * Alexander Pope
  • [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
  • Accepting of new ideas.
  • Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
  • God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
  • (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
  • (Prior)
  • (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
  • Antonyms

    * impervious

    See also

    * permeable * porous

    Anagrams

    * *

    cellular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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    Derived terms

    * microcellular

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).
  • Hypernyms

    * See also

    See also

    * cell phone