topology
pronunciation
How to pronounce topology in British English:
UK [tə'pɒlədʒɪ]
How to pronounce topology in American English:
US [tə'pɑlədʒɪ]
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- Noun:
- topographic study of a given place (especially the history of place as indicated by its topography)
- the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region
- the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions
- the configuration of a communication network
Word Origin
- topology (n.)
- 1650s, "study of the locations where plants are found," from topo-, comb. form of Greek topos "place" (see topos) + -logy. Related: Topological.
Example
- 1. Even the topology of the internet itself is looking less american .
- 2. The idea is that your storm topology is a distributed function that waits for invocation messages .
- 3. With networking , this issue becomes mainly about topology .
- 4. Network topology is basically a description of how the physical connections of a network are set up .
- 5. The stripped-down scenario is effectively the one-dimensional version of an encounter with ripped space-time , which occurs when the topology of a space changes radically .