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A place where a prisoner is locked up
“In many of the young offender institutions, people spend more than fifteen hours a day locked up in a cell.”
An enclosed area in a building or structure
“He, for some time, lived in a little cell attached to the church.”
An enclosed cavity in a structure or organism
“Each hexagonal cell in the honeycomb slopes downward from the opening to the base.”
A small group forming a nucleus of political activity, typically a secret, subversive one
“Police are investigating whether another member of the terrorist cell is alive and on the run.”
A branch or division of a company or organization
“Later, some of these societies became interested in politics, supporting the local cell of their preferred party.”
(biology) The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism
“Before a red blood cell is released from the bone marrow, most of its internal parts are ejected as excess baggage.”
Minute organism
A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection
The reproductive cell or gamete of the male
A container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity
An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell
A small, flat, and very thin piece separated from a whole
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