Definitions of topology:

  • noun:   the configuration of a communication network
  • noun:   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
  • noun:   topographic study of a given place (especially the history of place as indicated by its topography)
    Example: "Greenland's topology has been shaped by the glaciers of the ice age"
  • noun:   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