The cell is the room or room where a detainee is locked up in a prison.
Cell is a term that comes from the Latin cella , which means “small room.” This is the room where, in a prison, one or more people who have been convicted of having committed a crime are locked up.
For example: “Each detainee has to be in his cell before lunch time,” “Although the businessman accused of corruption is in prison, his cell looks like a luxury room: it has a computer and a television next to the bed.” , “When searching the cells, the guards found a large number of weapons.”
The concept is also used to name other types of rooms, such as those intended for a religious in his convent or for individual accommodation in a school : “Sister Clara is praying in her cell,” “The police decided to investigate the priest's cell.” accused of child abuse.”
Cell in computing
For computing , the term cell has several meanings. The best known refers to each of the spaces in a spreadsheet that allows data to be entered. It is usually the space formed from the intersection of a row and a column, receiving its name from the letter that identifies the column and the number that refers to the row: B7, G35, etc.
The user can enter different types of data in a cell, such as text, numbers or formulas so that the program performs certain calculations with the data entered. The cells of a spreadsheet are not simple disjointed spaces, but through intelligent design they can offer a large number of possibilities.
In the case of Excel , developed by Microsoft , it is possible to make the structure and functionality of spreadsheets more complex through its integration with Visual Basic ; When the formulas do not allow us to obtain the desired results, the use of this language opens a new range of options, increasing the level of customization and enhancing the capabilities of the document.
Spreadsheets have cells.
Memory module space
On the other hand, each of the spaces that are part of a memory module, which allow n-bit binary words to be stored, is known as a memory cell . Each cell is capable of storing a bit, whose value can be 0 or 1, and to access its information you must know the column and the row in which it is located (the grouping into rows and columns represents the basic design of the cells of a memory of this type).
Dynamic RAM has cells made up of a capacitor and a transistor, while static RAM has an average of five transistors per cell. It is worth mentioning that cells operate similarly to switches.
This last type of memory is called SRAM (the S corresponds to the static term in English, while RAM translates as random access memory ) and its transistor technology can be MOSFET or bipolar. To activate each of the cells, the upper input is used while writing and reading are done through the side lines.
Dynamic memory, for its part, is known as DRAM ( D stands for dynamic ) and manufacturing its cells is a simpler process than that necessary to build SRAM , which results in higher capacities. One of its weak points is the need to reload data; To do this, each cell has additional circuits.
Other uses of the term cell
In geometry , a cell is a three-dimensional object that is part of another object with a greater number of dimensions.
The cells , finally, are the cavities that the bees create in the panels with the wax that they originate from their glands.