Definitions
- 1.cell (room for a monk or nun in a monastery or convent)
- 2.cell (room in a prison for containing inmates)
- 3.cell (compartment in a honeycomb)
- 4.cell (basic unit of a living organism). In Croatia and often in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the synonym stanica is used instead.
- 5.cell (unit in a statistical array)
- 6.cell (small number of people forming the basic unit of an organization)
Etymology
From palatalized (iotized) form of Russian ке́лья (kélʹja), from Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂.