topology

Topology ( ancient Greek τόπος tópos , German 'place' and logic ) denotes:

Natural Sciences:

• Topology (geography) , the positional relationships between spatial objects
• Topology (mathematics) , branch of mathematics
• the structure of a mathematical space, see topological space
• In physics, topological properties play a central role for topological insulators and topological quantum field theories
• Chemical topology, see topological isomerism , the topologically different spatial arrangement of the substructures of macromolecules , for example in nodes
• In the taxonomy (biology) a certain arrangement of the taxa in a phylogenetic tree, see cladistics §Topology .
• a traffic-related organizational principle of spatial planning, see system of central places

Technology:

• Topology (electronics) , the theoretical structure of a circuit
• Topology (computer network) , the structure of the connections in a computer network
• the arrangement of neurons in an artificial neural network
• a favorable basic design for mechanically stressed machine parts, see topology optimization

Humanities:

• Topology (philosophy) , the philosophical theory of the place or field
• a way of representing the grammatical structure of sentences, see field model of the German sentence
• the teaching of Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) as a variant of the Gestalt theory, see field theory (psychology)

See also:

Wiktionary: topology  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: topologie  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Topos (disambiguation)
• Topic (disambiguation)
• Topography (disambiguation)
• Topological descriptor (topological index), numerical value derived from the structure of a chemical molecule

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