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1. Any small compartment
   "the cells of a honeycomb"
    
2. (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
    
3. A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
   - electric cell
    
4. A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
   - cadre
    
5. [N. Amer] A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network using radio waves
   - cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, mobile phone, mobile [Brit], cellular [N. Amer], mobe [informal]
    
6. Small room in which a monk or nun lives
   - cubicle
    
7. A room where a prisoner is kept
   - jail cell, prison cell, peter [Austral, NZ, informal]
    
8. (computing) a position in an electronic spreadsheet identified by its row and column

Sounds like: sell

Derived forms: cells

Type of: animate thing, compartment, electrical device, living thing, political entity, political unit, radiophone, radiotelephone, room, wireless telephone

Part of: being, cellblock, convent, monastery, organism, political movement, ward

Encyclopedia: Cell