cell

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Singular
cell

Plural
cells

A jail cell.
A cell.
  1. (countable) A cell is a room in a jail where prisoners are kept.
    He was arrested and kept in a small cell for one day.
  2. (countable) (biology) A cell is a unit of a living organism.
    A plant cell has a cell wall.

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