Topology vs. Topography

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

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.

Topographynoun

A precise description of a place.

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.

Topographynoun

A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.

Topologynoun

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

Topographynoun

The features themselves; terrain.

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Topologynoun

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

Topographynoun

The surveying of the features.

Topologynoun

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

Topographynoun

the configuration of a surface and the relations among its man-made and natural features

Topologynoun

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

Topographynoun

precise detailed study of the surface features of a region

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Topologynoun

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

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

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

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

Topologynoun

the configuration of a communication network