active cell

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But these resources rely on users having an active cell signal—and cell towers and other infrastructure can be quickly disabled in a fire, flood or other disaster, creating a chaotic and dangerous information bottleneck.

From Scientific American • Sep. 11, 2023

As a management challenge, the FWP’s Manhattan office was the worst of the worst, a pot stirred by 31 different unions and splinters of unions including an active cell of the American Communist Party.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2021

This is in contrast to the sheets of fruit-fly embryos, in which the formation of scutoids is a dynamic, temporary process driven by active cell rearrangement5.

From Nature • Sep. 9, 2018

What happens across the membrane of an electrically active cell is a dynamic process that is hard to visualize with static images or through text descriptions.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The irritability of the one active cell subsided, that of the others was aroused.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar