cell

Definitions

• A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
• (now) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
• A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
• A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
• Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
• (biology) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
• (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
• (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
• A section or compartment of a larger structure.
• (obsolete) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
• A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
• (biology) 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.
• (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
• (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
• (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
• A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
• (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in Transfer asynchronous transfer mode.
• (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
• (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
• (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
• (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
• (architecture) A cella.
• (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins