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单词 cell
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cell1/sel/ noun

a small room in a prison or in a convent or monastery

a small room in a prison for one or more inmates

a barely furnished room for one person, e.g. in a convent or monastery

a one-roomed dwelling occupied by a solitary person, e.g. a hermit or recluse

the smallest structural unit of living matter, consisting of a nucleus surrounded by cytoplasm (jelly-like material) and bounded by a membrane, capable of functioning either alone or with others in all fundamental life processes

blood cell

That all living organisms are composed of cells has been known since the work of microscopists in the mid 19th cent. The simplest independently living organisms such as bacteria are single-celled, whilst in multicellular organisms different tissues contain cells specialized for distinct functions, like nerve or muscle. The ten trillion cells of the human body include some 250 different cell types — Professor Steven Rose

a small compartment, or a bounded space, e.g. a compartment of a honeycomb or a receptacle for seeds in a plant

the primary unit of a political, esp subversive, organization

a terrorist cell

a small religious house dependent on a monastery or convent

a vessel containing electrodes and an electrolyte either for generating electricity by chemical action or for use in electrolysis

a single unit in a device for producing electricity as a result of exposure to radiant energy

a basic subdivision of a computer memory that is addressable and can hold one unit, e.g. a word, of a computer's basic operating data

any of the individual geographical regions of a cellular radio system

[Old English via Old French from Latin cella small room]

cell2noun

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