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  1. noun
    a room where a prisoner is kept

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  2. noun
    small room in which a monk or nun lives

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  3. noun
    a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

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  4. noun
    a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
  5. noun
    a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

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  6. noun
    any small compartment
    "the cells of a honeycomb"
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  7. noun
    (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
Definition that contains cell
  • mitosis cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
  • isles of langerhans cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ; secrete insulin and other hormones
  • cellulose triacetate cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film
  • acrasiomycetes cellular slime molds; in some classifications placed in kingdom Protoctista
  • mother cell cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops
  • adipose cell cells composed of fat
  • islets of langerhans cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ; secrete insulin and other hormones
  • hypermastigina cellulose-producing flagellates
  • gametangium cell or organ in which gametes develop
  • fat cell cells composed of fat
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