Etymology

From Late LatinCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#TOPOLOGY topologia, from By surface analysis, topo- (“place”) +‎ -logy (“study of, a branch of knowledge”)Category:English terms prefixed with topo-#LOGYCategory:English terms suffixed with -logy#TOPOLOGY.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təˈpɒləd͡ʒi/Category:English 4-syllable words#TOPOLOGYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TOPOLOGY
• (General American) IPA^(key): /təˈpɑləd͡ʒi/Category:English 4-syllable words#TOPOLOGYCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TOPOLOGY

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒiCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒlədʒi#TOPOLOGYCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒlədʒi/4 syllables#TOPOLOGY

Noun

topology (countable and uncountable, plural topologies)Category:English lemmas#TOPOLOGYCategory:English nouns#TOPOLOGYCategory:English uncountable nouns#TOPOLOGYCategory:English countable nouns#TOPOLOGYCategory:English countable nouns#TOPOLOGYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TOPOLOGYCategory:Pages with entries#TOPOLOGYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#TOPOLOGY

1. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#TOPOLOGY, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#TOPOLOGY) 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).
   • 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.

   • 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.

2. (topologyCategory:en:Topology#TOPOLOGY) 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 ${\displaystyle X}$ equipped with a topology ${\displaystyle \tau }$ is called a topological space and denoted ${\displaystyle (X,\tau )}$.Category:English terms with usage examples#TOPOLOGY

   The subsets of a set ${\displaystyle X}$ which constitute a topology are called the open sets of ${\displaystyle X}$.Category:English terms with usage examples#TOPOLOGY

   • 2016, Ehud Hrushovski, François Loeser, Non-Archimedean Tame Topology and Stably Dominated Types (AM-192), Princeton University Press, page 43:

     It is easy to verify that the topology generated by these basic open sets coincides with the definition of the topology on ${\displaystyle {\widehat {V}}}$ above, for the Zariski topology and the sheaf of functions ${\displaystyle \operatorname {val} (f),f}$ regular.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TOPOLOGY

3. (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#TOPOLOGY) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
4. (computingCategory:en:Computing#TOPOLOGY) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
5. (technologyCategory:en:Technology#TOPOLOGY) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application.
6. (topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
7. (datedCategory:English dated terms#TOPOLOGY) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

See also

• toponymy
• homotopy
• Appendix:Glossary of topology

Further reading

• topology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Homotopy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• optology