English noun: topology |
1. | topology (cognition) topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography) |
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| Samples | Greenland's topology has been shaped by the glaciers of the ice age.
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| Broader (hypernym) | topography |
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2. | topology (cognition) 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 |
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| Synonyms | regional anatomy, topographic anatomy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | anatomy, general anatomy |
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3. | topology (cognition) 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 |
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| Synonyms | analysis situs |
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| Broader (hypernym) | pure mathematics |
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| Domain category | math, mathematics, maths |
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4. | topology (cognition) the configuration of a communication network |
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| Synonyms | network topology |
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| Broader (hypernym) | configuration, constellation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bus, bus topology, logical topology, loop, loop topology, mesh, mesh topology, physical topology, star, star topology |
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