Cell /(?)/

Cell

n.
  1. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
    The heroic confessor in his cell.
  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. (Arch.)
  5. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery. (Elec.)
  6. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed. (Biol.)

Phrases & Compounds
Air cell
See Air cell.
Cell development
(called also cell genesis, cell formation, and cytogenesis), the multiplication, of cells by a process of reproduction under the following common forms; segmentation or fission, gemmation or budding, karyokinesis, and endogenous multiplication. See Segmentation, Gemmation, etc.
Cell theory
See Cellular theory, under Cellular.

Cell

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Celled

  1. To place or inclose in a cell. [R.]