Word Definition

Cell

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

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