cell

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Noun

1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
3. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
   • Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
4. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
   • The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
5. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
6. Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
7. The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
8. Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
9. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
10. Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
11. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
    • This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
12. The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
13. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
    • There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
14. The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
    • The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
15. In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
16. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
    • Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
17. A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
    • Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
18. A region of radio reception, or the group of devices that uses it, that is a part of a larger radio network.
    • I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
19. A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
20. The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
21. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
22. A cella.
23. An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

Verb

1. To place or enclose in a cell.

Noun

1. A cellular phone.

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