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A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
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A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
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A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
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Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.
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A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
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The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
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Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
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Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
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The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
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Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
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A section or compartment of a larger structure.
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Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.
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A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
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This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
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The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
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A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
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There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
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The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
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The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
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In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
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A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
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Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
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(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.
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Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
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(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
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I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
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A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
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The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
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The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
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A cella.
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An area of an insect wing bounded by veins