cell

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Quotations 1.2.1.2 Synonyms 1.2.1.3 Derived terms 1.2.1.4 Related terms 1.2.1.5 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Usage notes 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 External links 2 Old Irish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Descendants 3 Swedish 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛl/, SAMPA: /sEl/
• Homophones: cel, sell

[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] Noun

cell (plural cells)

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1. A room in a monastery for sleeping 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.# A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.

   Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

4. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

   There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

5. (cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.

   Your entire body is a colony of individual cells.

6. (biology) An cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.

   The bee filled the cell with honey.

7. (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.

8. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.

   Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

9. (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.

10. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

[edit] Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

[edit] Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:cell

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Related terms

• cellular

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[edit] Etymology 2

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

[edit] Noun

cell (plural cells)

1. (US, informal) A cellular phone.

[edit] Usage notes

• Widely used attributively.

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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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[edit] Old Irish

[edit] Etymology

From Latin cella.

[edit] Noun

cell

1. church

[edit] Descendants

• Irish: cill
• Manx: keeill
• Scottish Gaelic: cill

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

Inflection for cell	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	cell	cellen	celler	cellerna
Possessive form	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.