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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