Topology - Definition
topology
n 1: 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: 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 [syn:
regional anatomy, topographic anatomy, topology]
3: 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 [syn: topology,
analysis situs]
4: the configuration of a communication network [syn:
topology, network topology]