The phrase "a cell in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific cell within a larger structure, such as a spreadsheet, a biological context, or any grid-like arrangement.
Example: "In the spreadsheet, a cell in a specific column contains the total sales for the month."
Alternatives: "a cell within a" or "a cell of a".
(A cell in a crowded, coed prison where drinking is encouraged, that is).
"Computer" used to be a job title for humans who did calculations; now their entire function can be replicated by a cell in a spreadsheet.
Quintanilla says she was interrogated while still under the effect of anaesthetic, handcuffed and brought from hospital to a cell in a police jail, accused of having killed ker child.
The authorities refused to disclose details of the episode last night, but officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the inmates were sharing a cell in a mental observation unit of the jail.
On Dutch TV last summer, he was shown making birdcalls from a cell in a twenty-foot-tall concrete honeycomb wall that West 8 designed and then, like a naughty schoolboy, walking along the top.
That is meant to be a mental health unit, but a lack of them in many parts of England means one in three assessments takes place in a cell in a police station.
After Musharraf deposed him, Sharif was hurled into a cell in a sixteenth-century fort along with some of his closest political lieutenants, and later dispatched into exile, where he remained for seven years.
A less intrusive option is to use image-recognition software to pick out the outline of a cell in a microscope.
The second letter stated, and a lawyer for Dr. Lee confirmed, that he is held in a cell in a New Mexico jail for 23 hours a day; his ankles and wrists are shackled when he is moved about the jail, including during a weekly meeting with his family.
Because I had not, I was interrogated for four hours, body searched, fingerprinted, photographed, handcuffed and forced to spend the night in a cell in a detention facility in central Los Angeles, and another day as a detainee at the airport before flying back to London.
Of course, wrote Raymond Jean, Christian was legally a child and had to be protected and defended against himself; but was it really protection to commit him to a home for delinquents or "to a cell in a psychiatric clinic, to deliver him over to injections and sleep cures"?
