- a small convent or monastery attached to a larger one
- a hermit's hut
- a small room or cubicle, as in a convent or prison
- a very small hollow, cavity, or enclosed space; specif.,
- any of the compartments in a honeycomb
- a small, hollow space in tissue, esp. in bone
- the space of an insect's wings enclosed by the veins
- any compartment of an ovary; also, a pollen sac or spore sac
- any of the smallest organizational units of a group or movement, as of a Communist party
- any of the individual boxes in which words or numerical data may be entered in a table (noun) or spreadsheet: cells read across form rows, cells read up or down form columns
- any of the small areas making up a cellular communications system, each having a low-power transmitter and receiver combination
- Informal cell phone
- Biol. a very small, complex unit of protoplasm, usually with a nucleus, cytoplasm, and an enclosing membrane: all plants and animals are made up of one or more cells that usually combine to form various tissues
- Elec.
- an open or sealed container holding electrodes and an electrolyte, used to generate electricity by chemical reactions or to decompose compounds by electrolysis
- any compartment of a storage battery
- a unit within any device, as a solar battery, that produces voltage by converting radiant energy into electrical energy
Origin of cell
Middle English from Old English from Old French celle from Classical Latin cella, small room, hut (LL(Ec), monastic cell) from Indo-European base an unverified form kel-, to conceal from source hall, hell, hull, Gothic halja cellular (adjective)
