Definition of cell

• n. - A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
• n. - A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
• n. - Any small cavity, or hollow place.
• n. - The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
• n. - Same as Cella.
• n. - A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
• n. - One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
• v. t. - To place or inclose in a cell.