- 1the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells blood cells the nucleus of a cell see stem cell
- 2a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station see padded cell
- 3a small room without much furniture in which a monk or nun lives
- 4(informal) = cell phone
- 5a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light a photoelectric cell
- 6a small group of people who work as part of a larger political organization, especially secretly a terrorist cell
- 7each of the small sections that together form a larger structure, for example a honeycomb
- 8one of the small squares in a spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data
Check pronunciation: cell