Cell

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

Same as Cella.

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

To place or inclose in a cell.

The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism

(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

a room where a prisoner is kept

small room in which a monk or nun lives