block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care | (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals |
a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction |
a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections | a room where a prisoner is kept |
a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another | small room in which a monk or nun lives |
| any small compartment |
| a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver |
| a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement |