Cell

A term sometimes used to denote a period parallelogram of a double-periodic function $ f $ whose sides do not contain poles, and which is obtained from a fundamental period parallelogram by translation over a vector $ z _ {0} \in \mathbf C $.

References

[1]	E.T. Whittaker, G.N. Watson, "A course of modern analysis" , Cambridge Univ. Press (1927)

Comments

In addition there are several technical meanings of the word cell in geometry and topology. Thus, in affine geometry the convex hull of a finite set of points is sometimes called a convex cell. A subset $ E $ of a topological Hausdorff space such that there is a relative homeomorphism $ \alpha : ( B ^ {n} , S ^ {n - 1 } ) \rightarrow ( \overline{E}\; , \partial E) $ is a (topological) $ n $- dimensional cell. Here $ B ^ {n} $ is the unit ball, its boundary $ \partial B ^ {n} = S ^ {n - 1 } $ is the $ ( n - 1) $- dimensional sphere, and a relative homeomorphism is, of course, a continuous mapping $ \alpha : B ^ {n} \rightarrow \overline{E}\; $ such that $ \alpha ( S ^ {n - 1 } ) \subset \partial E $ and $ \alpha $ induces a homeomorphism $ B ^ {n} \setminus S ^ {n - 1 } \rightarrow \overline{E}\; \setminus \partial E $; cf. also Cell complex and Cellular space. The phrase unit cell occasionally occurs as a synonym for the ball (disc) of radius one centred at the origin in $ n $- dimensional Euclidean space, and any space homeomorphic to it is also sometimes called an $ n $- dimensional topological cell. Finally, cell is sometimes used to denote the possible locations of entries in a matrix or similar structure, such as a magic square or Young diagram, or as a synonym for a block in a block matrix.