cell /ˈsɛl/
 區, 細胞,血球;小室,牢房;電池,光電管;基層組織
 cell /ˈsɛl/ 名詞
 細胞
 cell
 單元; 胞狀; 資料格; 字元格
 cell
 細胞 格
 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.   --Macaulay.
 2. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. “Cells or dependent priories.”
 3. Any small cavity, or hollow place.
 4. Arch. (a) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. (b) Same as Cella.
 5. Elec. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
 6. Biol. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
 Note: ☞ All cells have their origin in the primary cell from which the organism was developed. In the lowest animal and vegetable forms, one single cell constitutes the complete individual, such being called unicelluter orgamisms. A typical cell is composed of a semifluid mass of protoplasm, more or less granular, generally containing in its center a nucleus which in turn frequently contains one or more nucleoli, the whole being surrounded by a thin membrane, the cell wall. In some cells, as in those of blood, in the amœba, and in embryonic cells (both vegetable and animal), there is no restricting cell wall, while in some of the unicelluliar organisms the nucleus is wholly wanting. See Illust. of Bipolar.
 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. Biol. See Cellular theory, under Cellular.
 Cell v. t. [imp. & p. p. Celled ] To place or inclose in a cell. “Celled under ground.” [R.]
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 cell
      n 1: any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
      2: (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all
         organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life
         (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in
         higher plants and animals
      3: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of
         a chemical reaction [syn: electric cell]
      4: a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a
         larger political movement [syn: cadre]
      5: a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided
         into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range
         transmitter/receiver [syn: cellular telephone, cellular
         phone, cellphone, mobile phone]
      6: small room is which a monk or nun lives [syn: cubicle]
      7: a room where a prisoner is kept [syn: jail cell, prison
         cell]