cell   (TTS Sound)

The noun cell has 7 senses

• cell -- (any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb")


• cell -- ((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)


• cell, electric cell -- (a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction)


• cell, cadre -- (a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement)


• cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone -- (a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver)


• cell, cubicle -- (small room in which a monk or nun lives)


• cell, jail cell, prison cell -- (a room where a prisoner is kept)