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See also:CELL (from See also:Lat. See also:cella, probably from an Indo-See also:European kal —seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another See also:suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, See also:wax, taking the See also:original meaning to refer to the See also:honeycomb) , in its earliest application a small detached See also:room in a See also:building, particularly a small monastic See also:house (see See also:ABBEY), generally in the See also:country, belonging to large conventual buildings, and intended for See also:change of See also:air for the monks, as well as places to reside in to look after the lands, vassals, &c . Thus See also:Tynemouth was a See also:cell to St Albans; See also:Ashwell, Herts, to See also:Westminster Abbey . The See also:term was also used of the small sleeping apartments of the monks, or a small apartment used by the anchorite or See also:hermit . This use still survives in the application to the small See also:separate See also:chambers in a See also:prison (q.v.) in which prisoners are confined . The word is applied to various small compartments which build up a See also:compound structure such as a See also:honeycomb, to the See also:minute compartments in a See also:tissue, &c . More particularly the word is used, in See also:electrical See also:science, of the single constituent compartments of a voltaic See also:battery (q.v.), and in See also:biology of the living See also:units of See also:protoplasm of which See also:plants and animals are composed (see See also:CYTOLOGY) . |
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