cell vs electrolytic cell

electrolytic cell vs cell

cell and electrolytic cell both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cell	Yes	No	No	No
electrolytic cell	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, electrolytic cell is a hyponym of cell; that is, electrolytic cell is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cell:

cell: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
electrolytic cell: a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen)

Other hyponyms of cell include fuel cell, photovoltaic cell, solar cell, secondary cell, storage cell, galvanic cell, primary cell, voltaic cell.

cell (noun)	electrolytic cell (noun)
(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals	a cell containing an electrolyte in which an applied voltage causes a reaction to occur that would not occur otherwise (such as the breakdown of water into hydrogen and oxygen)
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
a room where a prisoner is kept
small room in which a monk or nun lives
any small compartment
a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

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