cell

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From Middle English, from Old English, from Latin cella (“a small room”).

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cell (plural cells)

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  1. A room in a monastery accommodating one person.
    Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
  2. A room in a prison for containing inmates.
    The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
  3. A component of an electrical battery.
    This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
  4. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
    Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
    • 2010 (May 5th, 5:00pm): Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, “Splinter Cell: Conviction” reviewed by Zero Punctuation, 0:16–0:26
      Besides being the smallest possible unit of mutant rat karate master, Splinter Cell is a series of stealth games under the Tom Clancy label, although one suspects that Tom Clancy himself had as much to do with the development of Splinter Cell: Conviction as Tom Clancy’s goldfish.
  5. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
    There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
  6. (cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.
    There is a virtual zoo of single cell organisms living in your mouth.
  7. (biology) A cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.
    The bee filled the cell with honey.
  8. (computing) 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.
  9. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
    Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
  10. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
    I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
  11. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
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component of an electrical battery
room in a prison for containing inmates
room in a monastery for sleeping one person
small group of people forming part of a larger organization
small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
basic unit of a living organism
cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary
minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope
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[edit] Etymology 2

From cell phone, from cellular phone, from cellular + telephone

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cell (plural cells)

  1. (US, informal) A cellular phone.
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  • Widely used attributively.
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informal: a cellular telephone

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[edit] Old Irish

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From Latin cella.

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cell f.

  1. church

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Declension of cell
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cell cellen celler cellerna
genitive cells cellens cellers cellernas

cell c.

  1. Cell; a room in a prison.
  2. Cell; a room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
  3. Cell; a small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
  4. (biology) Cell; the basic unit of a living organism.
  5. (biology) Cell; an cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb.
  6. (computing) Cell; a minimal unit of a cellular automaton.

[edit] Welsh

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From Latin cella.

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cell f. (plural celloedd) 

  1. cell
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