Topology

What does TOPOLOGY mean?

1. noun

   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”

2. noun

   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

3. noun

   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

4. noun

   the configuration of a communication network

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.