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

4 senses of topology

Sense 1
topology -- (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")
       => topography -- (precise detailed study of the surface features of a region)

Sense 2
regional anatomy, topographic anatomy, topology -- (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)
       => anatomy, general anatomy -- (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Sense 3
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)

Sense 4
topology, network topology -- (the configuration of a communication network)
       => configuration, constellation -- (an arrangement of parts or elements; "the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time")