Meaning of cell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cellular phone.
   Australia, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, informal
2. cell (the basic unit of a living organism)
3. Room, usually modest, allocated to religious in a convent.
4. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
5. cell (a small group of people forming part of a larger organization)
6. To store in a honeycomb.
7. Fraction of a set of formations generally repetitive.
8. A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
   historical
9. To live in or share a prison cell.
10. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
11. see cellular phone.
    see
12. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
13. célula, unidad estructural de todo organismo viviente.
14. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
15. A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.
16. Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
17. A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.
18. The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
19. Biology The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm, usually one nucleus, and various other organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.
    Biology
20. Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
    obsolete
21. Architecture See web.
    Architecture
22. A section or compartment of a larger structure.
23. The smallest organizational unit of a clandestine group or movement, such as a banned political movement or a terrorist group. A cell's leader is often the only person who knows members of the organization outside the cell.
24. Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
    literary, obsolete
25. Electricity a. A single unit for electrolysis or conversion of chemical into electric energy, usually consisting of a container with electrodes and an electrolyte; a battery. Also called electrochemical cell.
    Electricity
26. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
27. 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.
28. A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
29. The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
30. In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
31. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
32. A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
33. A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
34. A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
35. The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
36. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
37. A cella.
38. An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

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Examples

“So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].”

“For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.”

“Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”

“A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.”

“The combatants spent the night in separate cells.”

“Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].”

“How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.”

“[W]e shall feel still more contempt for the order of men, who cultivated their faculties, only to enable them to consolidate their power, by leading the ignorant astray; making the learning they concentrated in their cells, a more polished instrument of oppression.”

“From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.”

“Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].”

“Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell[…].”

“This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.”

“An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.”

“In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.”

“There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.”

“The upper right cell always starts with the color green.”

“Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.”

“It is used for land-use change simulations, where the content of the cells surrounding a central cell defines how this cell is going to evolve (for example, a cell that is "agriculture" but has 3 urban neighbors will likely become urban, while if it is surrounded by forest or other agriculture cells, it will remain agriculture.)”

“I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)”

“Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.”

“Salarian intelligence field agents are grouped into an organization called the Special Tasks Group. STG operators work in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.”

“Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.”

“I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.”

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