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cell - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'cell' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cell [ n.]
- A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
- A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
- Any small cavity, or hollow place.
- The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- Same as Cella.
- A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
- One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
2 . Cell [ v. t.]
- To place or inclose in a cell.

Meaning of 'cell' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . cell [ n]
Meaning (1):
- any small compartment
Example in sentence:
  • the cells of a honeycomb