cell
- Noun. A room in a monastery accommodating one person.
- Noun. A room in a prison for containing inmates.
- Noun. A component of an electrical battery.
- Noun. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
- Noun. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- Noun. (cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.
- Noun. (biology) A cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.
- Noun. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- 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. (US, informal) A cellular phone.
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