cells

n. loculus, smallest unit of life (Biology, Anatomy); small room; small room in prison, jail cell; smal room in a convent; battery, electric storage cell; small group of people that is part of a larger organization who work together; smallest organizational unit of a movement; single unit that transforms radiant energy into electric energy

v. live in a prison cell; share a jail cell; store in a honeycomb

A cell is a single unit or compartment, enclosed by a border, wall or membrane. As a term, cell has become general-purpose metaphor for building blocks which serve to compose larger structures.
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Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by a Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as "STI." The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over a four-year period beginning March 2001 on a budget reported by IBM as approaching US$400 million. Cell is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, commonly abbreviated CBEA in full or Cell BE in part. Cell combines a general-purpose Power Architecture core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation.
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Noun
1. any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
(hypernym) compartment
2. (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
(hypernym) living thing, animate thing
(hyponym) blastomere
(part-holonym) organism, being
(part-meronym) cell wall, cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
(classification) biology, biological science
(class) totipotent
3. a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
(synonym) electric cell
(hypernym) electrical device
(hyponym) electrolytic cell
4. a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
(synonym) cadre
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) sleeper cell
(member-holonym) political movement
5. a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
(synonym) cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, mobile phone
(hypernym) radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone
6. small room is which a monk or nun lives
(synonym) cubicle
(hypernym) room
(part-holonym) monastery
7. a room where a prisoner is kept
(synonym) jail cell, prison cell
(hypernym) room
(hyponym) bullpen, detention cell, detention centre
(part-holonym) cellblock, ward

<networking> ATM's term for a packet.
(1996-08-21)

individual devices or circuits that may be reused as blocks in designs.