<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a small room, as in a convent or prison.</li><li>any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole.</li><li>a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the Communist party.</li><li>Biology: a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.</li><li>Entomology: one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins.</li><li>Botany: locule.</li><li>Electricity: also called battery, a device that generates electrical energy from chemical energy, usually consisting of two different conducting substances placed in an electrolyte.</li><li>Compare: dry cell, solar cell.</li><li>Also called electrolytic cell.</li><li>Physical Chemistry: a device for producing electrolysis, consisting essentially of the electrolyte, its container, and the electrodes.</li><li>Aeronautics: the gas container of a balloon.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: a monastery or nunnery, usually small, dependent on a larger religious house.</li><li>Telecommunications: one of the distinct geographical areas covered by a radio transmitter in a cellular phone system.</li></ul><p><strong>verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to live in a cell: The two prisoners had celled together for three years.</li></ul>