cell

Noun

• a room where a prisoner is kept

• small room in which a monk or nun lives

• a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

• a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

• a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

• (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

• any small compartment
  • the cells of a honeycomb
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  jail cell , prison cell , cubicle , cellular telephone , cellular phone , cellphone , mobile phone , cadre , electric cell