Dictionary

topos en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtoʊpɒs/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.

Meanings

1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
   • The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement. 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 239:
2. A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
3. (qualifier:Rugby School, slang) A toilet.

Forms

Hyponyms

elementary topos · Grothendieck topos

Relateds

topic · -topia

Translations (12)

nl topos (mathematical structure) · pl topos (literary theme) · ja トポス (literary theme) · hu toposz (literary theme) · fr topos (mathematical structure) · nl topos (literary theme) · ja トポス (mathematical structure) · es tópico (literary theme) · cs topos (literary theme) · de Topos (literary theme) · de Topos (mathematical structure) · pl topos (mathematical structure)