Cell

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Cell most often refers to:

  • Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life
  • Cellphone, a phone connected to a cellular network
  • Clandestine cell, a penetration-resistant form of a secret or outlawed organization
  • Electrochemical cell, a device used to convert chemical energy to electrical energy
  • Prison cell, a room used to hold people in prisons

Cell may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Cell (comics), a Marvel comic book character
  • Cell (Dragon Ball), a character in the manga series Dragon Ball

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 Plastic Tree
  • Cells, a 1998 album by Cex
  • Cells, a 2012 album by Fake Blood
  • "Cells", an art song composed by G. F. Cobb and named after the poem by Kipling
  • "Cells", a song by Bloem de Ligny
  • "Cells", a song by The Servant
  • The Cells, an American rock band
  • "The Cell" (song), a 2006 song by Jandek

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • The Cell (film), a 2000 psychological thriller film starring Jennifer Lopez
  • Cell (film), a 2016 film based on the Stephen King novel
  • 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

Groups of people

  • Cell, a group of people in a cell group, a form of Christian church organization
  • Cellular organizational structure, such as in business management

Rooms

  • Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery with only a few monks or nuns

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, a unit in a database table or spreadsheet, formed by the intersection of a row and a column
  • Cell, in wireless local area networking standards (including Wi-Fi), 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 (network), area of radio coverage in a cellular network
  • Memory cell (computing), the basic unit of (volatile or non-volatile) computer memory

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 (journal), a scientific journal
  • Fuel cell, a device used to convert chemical energy from a fuel like 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

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Cell
  • All pages with titles containing Cell
  • CEL (disambiguation)
  • Cellular (disambiguation)
  • Macrocell
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