cell

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  1. noun A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.
  2. noun A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.
  3. noun Biology The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of one or more nuclei, cytoplasm, and various organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.
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  • I stumbled and fell forward, striking my head against the back of the cell, for the cell was a sunken one. —  CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - FRANK ABAGNALE JR.
  • Recent advances also include the capability to take a skin cell of a patient with a disease, transform it into a stem cell, and then program it to grow into the particular kind of cell which is affected by the disease which then can be studied. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Spending some time in a cell might be a good dose of reality. —  WordPress.com News
  • This cell was the very beginning of a whole human being, you.
  • So self-assembly that you see inside the cell is a function of subunits that, in general, have evolved to self-assemble. —  ScreenTalk
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  1. Middle English celle, from Old English cell and from Old French, both from Latin cella, chamber; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from cell, n.
 

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