Definizione monolingua

cell

cell (plural cells)

1. A room in a monastery accommodating one person.

   Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

2. A room in a prison for containing inmates.

   The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

3. A component of an electrical battery.

   This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

4. A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.

   Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

   • 2010 (May 5^th, 5:00pm): Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, “Splinter Cell: Conviction” reviewed by Zero Punctuation, 0:16–0:26

     Besides being the smallest possible unit of mutant rat karate master, Splinter Cell is a series of stealth games under the Tom Clancy label, although one suspects that Tom Clancy himself had as much to do with the development of Splinter Cell: Conviction as Tom Clancy’s goldfish.

5. (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

   There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

6. (cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.

   There is a virtual zoo of single cell organisms living in your mouth.

7. (biology) A cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.

   The bee filled the cell with honey.

8. (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

   The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

9. (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.

   Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

10. (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

    I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

11. (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

Definizione dizionario cell

	cellula
	small group of people forming part of a larger organization
	basic unit of a living organism
	The microscopic functional and structural unit of all living organisms, consisting of a nucleus, cytoplasm, and a limiting membrane.

	cella
	room in a prison for containing inmates
	room in a monastery for sleeping one person
	In a cube, the set of properties, including a value, specified by the intersection when one member is selected from each dimension.

	cellulare
	informal: a cellular telephone
	Apparecchio elettronico portatile utilizzato per chiamare altre persone.
	A portable electronic device used for calling people.

elemento

	pila
	The basic building block of a battery. It is an electrochemical device consisting of an anode and a cathode in a common electrolyte kept apart with a separator. This assembly may be used in its own container as a single cell battery or be combined and interconnected with other cells in a container to form a multicelled battery.

	telefonino
	Apparecchio elettronico portatile utilizzato per chiamare altre persone.
	A portable electronic device used for calling people.

batteria

cell

nucleo

prigione

Altri significati:

a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode

(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode.

(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary

(US, informal) A cellular phone.

(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope

cell (biology)

small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front

minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior

component of an electrical battery

A component of an electrical battery.

(cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.

(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network

A room in a prison for containing inmates.

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.

(biology) A cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.

A room in a monastery accommodating one person.