topology : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: topology	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for topology
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
topology n 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" 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 Synonym(s): regional anatomy, topographic anatomy, topology 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 Synonym(s): topology, analysis situs the configuration of a communication network Synonym(s): topology, network topology
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topology \Topol"ogy\, n. [Gr. [?] place + -logy.] The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place. [R.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
topology 1. The branch of mathematics dealing with {continuous transformations}. 2. Which {hosts} are directly connected to which other hosts in a {network}. {Network layer} processes need to consider the current network topology to be able to {route} {packets} to their final destination reliably and efficiently. (2001-03-29)