noun
- Topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography. )
- usage: "Greenland's topology has been shaped by the glaciers of the ice age"
- 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.
- synonyms: regional anatomy, topographic anatomy
- 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.
- synonyms: analysis situs
- The configuration of a communication network.
- synonyms: network topology
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