Cell

1. (noun) A single-room dwelling for a hermit. 2. (noun) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. 3. (noun) A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. 4. (noun) A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. 5. (noun) Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. 6. (noun) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. 7. (noun) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect. 8. (noun) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories. 9. (noun) A section or compartment of a larger structure. 10. (noun) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den. 11. (noun) A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. 12. (noun) 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. (noun) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. 14. (noun) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. 15. (noun) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed. 16. (noun) A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. 17. (noun) (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode. 18. (noun) (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network. 19. (noun) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. 20. (noun) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect. 21. (noun) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. 22. (noun) A cella. 23. (noun) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins 24. (verb) To place or enclose in a cell.