topology Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography)
    • Greenland's topology has been shaped by the glaciers of the ice age
  2. noun 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
    regional anatomy; topographic anatomy.
  3. noun 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
    analysis situs.
  4. noun the configuration of a communication network
    network topology.

WordNet


To*pol"o*gy noun
Etymology
Gr. place + -logy.
Definitions
  1. The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place. R. 2. a branch of mathematics.

Webster 1913