Cell vs Unit - What's the difference?
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A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
* 1858 , (Asa Gray), Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany , fifth edition, p. 282:
(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch.XVI:
A section or compartment of a larger structure.
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* 1810 , (Walter Scott), Lady of the Lake , II:
A room in a prison for one or more inmates.
A device which stores electrical]] power; used either singly or together in [[battery, batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
* 1999 , Paul Brown & Dave King, The Guardian , 15 Feb 1999:
* 2011 , Terence Allen & Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 3:
(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
(communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in .
(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(architecture) A cella.
(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins
(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The number one.
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
(military, informal) A member of a military organization.
(US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .
(US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
(US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
(US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
(algebra) An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1R of a ring.)
(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
(UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
(Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
For each unit.
(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
* 1990 , William W. S. Wei, Time Series Analysis , ISBN 0201159112, page 9:
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As verbs the difference between cell and unit
is that cell is to place or enclose in a cell while unit is .As a noun cell
is a single-room dwelling for a hermit or cell can be (us|informal) a cellular phone.cell
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) , later reinforced by (etyl) cel, (sele), (etyl) cele.Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia cell)- So, taking them apart into his cell , / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
- Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell .
- Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom.
- From cell' to ' cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
- Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell .
- Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell .
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells .
- This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells .
- An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.
- In multicellular organisms, groups of cells form tissues and tissues come together to form organs.
- There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.
- The upper right cell always starts with the color green.
- Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.
- Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells .
- I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.
Usage notes
In the sense of an electrical device, "cell" is the technically correct name for a single unit of battery-type power storage, whereas a battery is a device comprising multiple of them, though it is often used for simple cells.Quotations
* (English Citations of "cell")Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from "cell") * battery cell * blood cell * brain cell * cancer cell * cellbound * cell division * cell house * cell line * cell membrane * cell theory * cell type * cellblock * cellmate * dry cell * fat cell * fuel cell * germ cell * helper T cell * host cell * photoconductive cell * photoelectric cell * photoemissive cell * photovoltaic cell * prison cell * nerve cell * red cell * red blood cell * sickle cell * skin cell * solar cell * stem cell * T cellEtymology 2
From (cell phone), from (cellular phone), from (cellular) + (telephone)Usage notes
* Widely used attributively.External links
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English
(Unit)Noun
(en noun)- The centimetre is a unit of length.
- This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
- He was a member of a special police unit .
- The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units .'' (''i.e., 20 tanks )
- We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
- (Camden)
Synonyms
* (identity element) identity element, unit elementAdjective
(-)- We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
- Consider the following time sequence
- where is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval independent of .