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▸ noun: (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
▸ noun: A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
▸ noun: A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
▸ noun: Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
▸ noun: (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
▸ noun: (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
▸ noun: A section or compartment of a larger structure.
▸ noun: (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
▸ noun: A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
▸ noun: (biology) 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.
▸ noun: (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
▸ noun: (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
▸ noun: (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
▸ noun: A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
▸ noun: (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
▸ noun: (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
▸ noun: (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
▸ noun: (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
▸ noun: (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
▸ noun: (architecture) A cella.
▸ noun: (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.
▸ noun: (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
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prison cell,
jail cell,
cubicle,
cadre,
electric cell,
cellular,
cellie,
phone,
subcell,
multicell,
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