topology
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- n 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 - n 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
- n 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
- n the configuration of a communication network
- The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology.
- Scientists were at a loss to explain the mass death wish: perhaps a leader gone berserk, or a quirk of weather or topology that disoriented the whales' biological sonar systems.
- He allowed us the greatest degree of experimentation, and we used the latest technologies to create a woven topology of fluid spaces.