cell vs honeycomb

cell

noun
  • Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. 

  • A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. 

  • A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. 

  • A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. 

  • 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. 

  • The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. 

  • A cella. 

  • An area of an insect wing bounded by veins. 

  • A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. 

  • A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. 

  • A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. 

  • A section or compartment of a larger structure. 

  • A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. 

  • A single-room dwelling for a hermit. 

  • The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect. 

  • A cellular phone. 

  • In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed. 

  • The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect. 

  • A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode. 

  • Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. 

  • The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. 

  • A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network. 

verb
  • To place or enclose in a cell. 

honeycomb

noun
  • Any structure resembling a honeycomb. 

  • A space-filling packing of polytopes in 3- or higher-dimensional space. 

  • A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter. 

  • Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles. 

  • Manufactured material used to manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design. 

  • The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight. 

verb
  • To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern. 

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