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topology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /təˈpɑləd͡ʒi/ (General-American)
  • /təˈpɒləd͡ʒi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Late Latin topologia, from By surface analysis, topo- (“place”) + -logy (“study of, a branch of knowledge”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing).
    • 1974 [Crane, Russak & Co.], H. Graham Flegg, From Geometry to Topology, 2001, Dover, page v, Many university courses in topology plunge immediately into a formalized and entirely abstract presentation of topological concepts.
    • 1970 [Addison-Wesley], Stephen Willard, General Topology, 2012, Dover, page v, This book is designed to develop the fundamental concepts of general topology which are the basic tools of working mathematicians in a variety of fields.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Any collection τ of subsets of a given set X that contains both the empty set and X, and which is closed under finitary intersections and arbitrary unions.
    • A set X equipped with a topology #92;tau is called a topological space and denoted (X,#92;tau).
    • It is easy to verify that the topology generated by these basic open sets coincides with the definition of the topology on #92;widehat#123;V#125; above, for the Zariski topology and the sheaf of functions #92;operatorname#123;val#125;(f),f regular. 2016, Ehud Hrushovski, François Loeser, Non-Archimedean Tame Topology and Stably Dominated Types (AM-192), Princeton University Press, page 43:
    • The subsets of a set X which constitute a topology are called the open sets of X.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
  5. (countable, uncountable) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application.
  6. (countable, uncountable) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
  7. (countable, dated, uncountable) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

Forms

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Deriveds

combinatorial topology · differential topology · final topology · link topology · Alexandrov topology · cofinite topology · pointless topology · mereotopology · disjoint union topology · point-set topology · subtopology · discrete topology · hypertopology · Scott topology · retopology · initial topology · psychotopology · Zariski topology · star topology · Grothendieck topology · algebraic topology · network topology · subspace topology · ring topology · heterotopology · topologic · ditopology · circuit topology · trivial topology · relative topology · microtopology · pretopology · bus topology · product topology · standard topology · pointfree topology · electrotopology · nanotopology · geometric topology

Holonyms

topological space

Hypernyms

pi-system (collection of subsets) · π-system (collection of subsets)

Meronyms

open set

Relateds

topologist · toponymy · homotopy · topological · topological space · topologically

Synonyms

analysis situs (branch of mathematics) · geometria situs (branch of mathematics)

Translations (59)

hu topológia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · fr topologie (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · id topologi (arrangements of computer nodes) · fi topologia (arrangements of computer nodes) · sh topologija (arrangements of computer nodes) · ja トポロジー (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · el τοπολογία (arrangements of computer nodes) · ja 位相幾何学 (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · af topologie (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · cmn 拓撲學 /拓扑学 (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · lv topoloģija (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · pt topologia (arrangements of computer nodes) · fa-ira توپولوژی (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · el τοπολογία (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · et topoloogia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ro topologie (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · sh topologija (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ja トポロジー (arrangements of computer nodes) · vi tô pô học (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · he טופולוגיה (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · eo topologio (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · scn topoluggìa (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ga toipeolaíocht (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ms topologi (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · mi āhuawhatunga (arrangements of computer nodes) · gl topoloxía (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · sh topologija (anatomical structure) · ru тополо́гия (arrangements of computer nodes) · es topología (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · hu topológia (arrangements of computer nodes) · ru тополо́гия (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · cmn 拓撲 /拓扑 (arrangements of computer nodes) · ko 위상수학 (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ja 位相数学 (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · da topologi (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · pt topologia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · cs topologie (arrangements of computer nodes) · nl topologie (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · de Topologie (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · is stöðfræði (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · sl topologija (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · it topologia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · pl topologia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · km ឋានវិទ្យា (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · de Topologie (arrangements of computer nodes) · sh топологија (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · cs topologie (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · is grannfræði (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · uk тополо́гія (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · fi topologia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ar طوبولوجيا (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · sh топологија (anatomical structure) · fr topologie (arrangements of computer nodes) · ca topologia (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · mk топологија (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · el τοπολογία (anatomical structure) · kk топология (study of geometric properties that are not changed by stretching etc.) · ru тополо́гия (anatomical structure) · sh топологија (arrangements of computer nodes)