Noun
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a room where a prisoner is kept
- jail cell - prison cell -
small room in which a monk or nun lives
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a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- cellular telephone - cellular phone - mobile phone -
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
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a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- electric 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
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any small compartment
"the cells of a honeycomb"