What is the meaning of topology?

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.
  • 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.
  • The configuration of a communication network.
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