cell
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From Middle English, from Old English, from Latin cella (“‘a small room’”).
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cell (plural cells)
- A room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
- Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
- A room in a prison for containing inmates.
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
- A component of an electrical battery.
- This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.# A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
- Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
- (cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.
- Your entire body is a colony of individual cells.
- (biology) An cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.
- The bee filled the cell with honey.
- (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.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
- (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.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
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- See also Wikisaurus:cell
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terms derived from "cell"
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component of an electrical battery
room in a prison for containing inmates
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room in a monastery for sleeping one person
small group of people forming part of a larger organization
basic unit of a living organism
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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)
- (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] External links
- cell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- cell in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- cell at OneLook® Dictionary Search
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cell
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| Inflection for cell | Singular | Plural | ||
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| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Base form | cell | cellen | celler | cellerna |
| Possessive form | cells | cellens | cellers | cellernas |
cell c.
- Cell; a room in a prison.
- Cell; a room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
- Cell; a small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
- (biology) Cell; the basic unit of a living organism.
- (biology) Cell; an cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb.
- (computing) Cell; a minimal unit of a cellular automaton.