standard cell

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   a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force

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Questions about standard cell

What does standard cell mean?

standard cell means "a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force".

Is standard cell a common word?

standard cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.