cell

So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.

1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV:

(now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 315:

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].

1858, Asa Gray, Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, fifth edition, p. 282:

(biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.

1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:

[W]e shall feel still more contempt for the order of men, who cultivated their faculties, only to enable them to consolidate their power, by leading the ignorant astray; making the learning they concentrated in their cells, a more polished instrument of oppression.

1794, Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution:

From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.

1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:

(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

A section or compartment of a larger structure.

Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell[…].

1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

(obsolete, chiefly literary) Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.

1999 February 15, Paul Brown, Dave King, The Guardian:

In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.

2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 3:

(biology) 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.

There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors.

1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

It is used for land-use change simulations, where the content of the cells surrounding a central cell defines how this cell is going to evolve (for example, a cell that is "agriculture" but has 3 urban neighbors will likely become urban, while if it is surrounded by forest or other agriculture cells, it will remain agriculture.)

2010 March 10, Jean H., “What is CA for?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state)

2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

(cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

Salarian intelligence field agents are grouped into an organization called the Special Tasks Group. STG operators work in independent cells, performing dangerous missions such as counter-terrorism, infiltration, reconnaissance, assassination, and sabotage.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Special Tasks Group Codex entry:

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell

صَوْمَعَة

room in a monastery for sleeping one person

solu

small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front

solu

a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode

포

geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope

cella

statistics: the unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.

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Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”)


cell

Myself a recluse from the world, And celled under ground, Lest that the gould, the precious stones, And pleasures, here be found

(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

en-verb

cell (third-person singular simple present cells, present participle celling, simple past and past participle celled)

cells (present singular third-person)
celling (participle present)
celled (participle past)
celled (past)


cell

(US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.

selfoon

informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.