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cels

cels is the plural of cel.

Meaning of cel

Noun

cel (plural cels)

  1. A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
    • After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation.2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times

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Noun capitalized: CELs

CELs

  1. (plural) plural of CEL

Questions about cels

What is cels the plural of?
Cels is the plural of cel.
What part of speech is cels?
Cels is a noun.

Words near cels in the dictionary

  1. celosomias
  2. Celotex
  3. celotomies
  4. celotomy
  5. CELP
  6. cels
  7. celsian
  8. celsitude
  9. celsitudes
  10. celsius
  11. Celsius scale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cels (page history and authors); CELs (page history and authors); cel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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