analysis situs

noun

analysis si·​tus -ˈsī-təs 

-ˈsē-,

-ˌtüs 

: topology sense 2a(1)

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin analysis sitūs "analysis of position"

Note: The phrase was used by Gottfried leibniz, as in the paper "De analysi situ," Leibnizens mathematische Schriften, 2. Abteilung, Band I, edited by C. I. Gerhardt (Leibnizen gesammelte Schriften, 3. Folge, 5. Band, Halle, 1858), p. 178.

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined above