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 jail, by Rudyard Kipling

The Cell (play), an Australian play by Robert Wales

Consortium on Electronic Literature, a database of electronic literature

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

"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 (processor), a multi-core processor 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

Cells (journal), a scientific journal