Meaning of cell in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

• A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

• A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

  Example: Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

• A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

  Example: The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

• Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

• Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

• The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

• 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.

• 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.

  Example: This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

• 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.

• A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

  Example: There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

• The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

  Example: The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

• 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.

  Example: Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

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

  Example: Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

• (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

  Example: I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

• A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

• The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

• The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

• A cella.

• An area of an insect wing bounded by veins

verb

• To place or enclose in a cell.

noun

• A cellular phone.