Definition of "cell" in Anglais

noun

1. A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

2. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

3. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

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

4. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

   • The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

5. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

6. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

7. (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

8. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

9. A section or compartment of a larger structure.

10. (obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

11. A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

    • This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

12. (biology) 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.

13. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

    • There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

14. (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

    • The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

15. (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

16. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

    • Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

17. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

    • Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

18. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

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

19. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

20. (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.