Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun analysis_situs

1 sense of analysis situs

Sense 1
topology, analysis situs -- (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)
       => pure mathematics -- (the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness)