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Cell may refer to:

Closed spaces

  • Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a monk or religious recluse lives
  • Prison cell, a room used to hold people in prisons

Groups of people

  • Cell, a group of people in a cell group, a form of Christian church organization
  • Cell, a unit of a clandestine cell system, a penetration-resistant form of a secret or outlawed organization
  • Cellular organizational structure, such as in business management

Science, mathematics, and technology

Computing and telecommunications

  • Cell (EDA), a term used in an electronic circuit design schematics
  • Cell (microprocessor), a microprocessor architecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM
  • Cell, the basic unit of Flash memory
  • Cell, a unit in a database table or spreadsheet, formed by the intersection of a row and a column
  • Cell, a wireless connection within a limited area, referred to as a cell, or Basic Service Set
  • Cell, a fixed length data frame used in the Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol
  • Cell phone or mobile phone, a phone connected to a cellular network
    • Cell, area of radio coverage in a cellular network

Mathematics

  • Cell (geometry), a three-dimensional element, part of a higher-dimensional object
  • Cell, an element of an abstract cell complex
  • Cell, a basic unit of a cellular automaton
  • Cell, an element of a CW complex
  • Cell, a k-face of a simplicial complex

Other uses in science and technology

  • Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life
  • Electrochemical cell, a device used to convert chemical energy to electrical source of energy
    • Fuel cell. a device used to convert chemical energy from a fuel example hydrogen to electricity
    • Galvanic cell or Voltaic cell, a particular kind of electrochemical cell
  • Photodetector, or photo cell, a sensor which detects light
  • Solar cell, a component of photovoltaic systems used to convert the energy of light into electricity
  • Storm cell, the smallest unit of a storm producing system

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Literature

  • Cell (novel), a 2006 horror novel by Stephen King
  • "Cells", poem, about a hungover soldier in gaol, by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Cell (play), an Australian play by Robert Wales

Music

  • Cell (music), a small rhythmic and melodic design that can be isolated, or can make up one part of a thematic context
  • Cell (American band)
  • Cell (Japanese band)
  • Cell (album), a 2004 album by the rock band Plastic Tree
  • Cells (album), a 1998 album by Cex
  • "Cells", an art song composed by G. F. Cobb and named after the poem by Kipling
  • "Cells", a song by Bloem de Ligny
  • The Cells, an American rock band
  • "The Cell" (song), a 2006 song by Jandek

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • The Cell, a 2000 psychological thriller film starring Jennifer Lopez
  • Cell (film), a 2016 film based on the Stephen King novel
  • Cell (journal), a scientific journal
  • Animation cel, a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation
  • "The Cell" (The Vampire Diaries), an episode of the TV series The Vampire Diaries
  • "The Cell" (The Walking Dead), a 2016 television episode of The Walking Dead
  • The Cell (BBC Four), Adam Rutherford's 3-part documentary series that aired on BBC Four
  • The Cell, the original title of the TV series Sleeper Cell

See also

  • CEL (disambiguation)
  • Cellular (disambiguation)
  • Macrocell
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