Meaning of cell

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit., A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent., Any small cavity, or hollow place., The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof., Same as Cella., A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery., One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed., To place or inclose in a cell.