meaning of cell
1. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
2. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
3. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
4. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
5. Same as Cella.
6. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
7. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
8. To place or inclose in a cell.
9. cell
10. biology the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life as in monads or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
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