Cell most often refers to: *

Cell (biology) The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all life, forms of life. Every cell consists of cytoplasm enclosed within a Cell membrane, membrane; many cells contain organelles, each with a specific function. The term comes from the ...

, 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 An electrochemical cell is a device that either generates electrical energy from chemical reactions in a so called galvanic cell, galvanic or voltaic cell, or induces chemical reactions (electrolysis) by applying external electrical energy in an ...

, 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 Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much ...

* ''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 I Monster from the album ''

Neveroddoreven ''Neveroddoreven'' (sometimes stylised as ''NeveroddoreveN'') is the second studio album by English electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music tec ...

'' * "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 A non-biological entity with a cellular organizational structure (also known as a cellular organization, cellular system, nodal organization, nodal structure, et cetera) is set up in such a way that it mimics how Natural science, natural systems ...

, such as in business management

Rooms

Monastic cell A cell is a small room used by a hermit, monk, nun or anchorite to live and as a devotional space. Cells are often part of larger cenobitic monastic communities such as Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Orthodox Christian monasteries, as well ...

, 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 cell in the context of electronic design automation Electronic design automation (EDA), also referred to as electronic computer-aided design (ECAD), is a category of software tools for designing Electronics, electronic systems such as integr ...

, 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 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a telecommunications standard defined by the American National Standards Institute and International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T, formerly CCITT) for digital trans ...

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 In mathematics, and specifically in topology, a CW complex (also cellular complex or cell complex) is a topological space that is built by gluing together topological balls (so-called ''cells'') of different dimensions in specific ways. It generali ...

*Cell, a k-face of a

simplicial complex In mathematics, a simplicial complex is a structured Set (mathematics), set composed of Point (geometry), points, line segments, triangles, and their ''n''-dimensional counterparts, called Simplex, simplices, such that all the faces and intersec ...

Other uses in science and technology

* ''Cell'' (journal), a scientific journal *

Fuel cell A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen fuel, hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity through a pair of redox reactions. Fuel cells are different from most bat ...

, 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 Photodetectors, also called photosensors, are devices that detect light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation and convert it into an electrical signal. They are essential in a wide range of applications, from digital imaging and optical ...

, or photo cell, a sensor which detects light *

Solar cell A solar cell, also known as a photovoltaic cell (PV cell), is an electronic device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic effect.

, a component of photovoltaic systems used to convert the energy of light into electricity * Storm cell, the smallest unit of a storm-producing system