n.
Pronunciation: t ə - ' pä-l ə -j ē , tä-
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -gies
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary
Date: 1850
1 : topographic study of a particular place specifically : the history of a region as indicated by its topography
2 a (1) : a branch of mathematics concerned with those properties of geometric configurations (as point sets) which are unaltered by elastic deformations (as a stretching or a twisting) that are homeomorphisms (2) : the set of all open subsets of a topological space b : CONFIGURATION < topology of a molecule> < topology of a magnetic field>
– to · pol · o · gist \ -jist \ noun