01 n. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
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A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.“The heroic confessor in his cell.” — Macaulay.
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A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
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3.
Any small cavity, or hollow place.
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4.
The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.(Arch.)
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A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.(Elec.)
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One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.(Biol.)
Phrases & compounds
Air cell —
See Air cell.
Cell development —
(called also cell genesis, cell formation, and cytogenesis), the multiplication, of cells by a process of reproduction under the following common forms; segmentation or fission, gemmation or budding, karyokinesis, and endogenous multiplication. See Segmentation, Gemmation, etc.