Topology : (noun) 1: topographic study of a given place (especially the history
of 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]
3: the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the
properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into
... ( more )
which X can be transformed with a one-to-one
correspondence that is continuous in both directions [syn:
analysis situs]
4: the configuration of a communication network [syn: network
topology]
