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topology

2 entries found.


Main Entry:
to·pol·o·gy 
          Listen to the pronunciation of topology
Pronunciation:
\tə-ˈpä-lə-jē, tä-\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural to·pol·o·gies
Etymology:
International Scientific Vocabulary
Date:
1850
1: topographic study of a particular place ; specifically : the history of a region as indicated by its topography2 a (1): a branch of mathematics concerned with those properties of geometric configurations (as point sets) which are unaltered by elastic deformations (as a stretching or a twisting) that are homeomorphisms (2): the set of all open subsets of a topological space b: configuration <topology of a molecule> <topology of a magnetic field>
to·pol·o·gist 
          Listen to the pronunciation of topologist \-jist\ noun


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