Morphology vs. Topology

Morphology vs. Topology — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Morphology and Topology

Morphologynoun

(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Topologynoun

(mathematics) A branch of mathematics studying those properties of a geometric figure or solid that are not changed by stretching, bending and similar homeomorphisms.

Morphologynoun

(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).

Topologynoun

(mathematics) A collection τ of subsets of a set X such that the empty set and X are both members of τ and τ is closed under finitary intersections and arbitrary unions.

Morphologynoun

(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.

Topologynoun

(medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body.

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Morphologynoun

(geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.

Topologynoun

(computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.

Morphologynoun

(math) Mathematical morphology.

Topologynoun

(technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application.

Morphologynoun

(countable) The form and structure of something.

Topologynoun

(topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.

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Morphologynoun

(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Topologynoun

(dated) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

Morphologynoun

the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants

Topologynoun

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

Morphologynoun

studies of the rules for forming admissible words

Topologynoun

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

Morphologynoun

the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

Topologynoun

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

Morphologynoun

the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms

Topologynoun

the configuration of a communication network