How to Use topology in a Sentence

topology

noun

• But the hub and spoke topology shouldn’t stop with your team.
  — Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• At first glance, topology would seem to be a poor fit for the problem of polling site placement.
  — Lyndie Chiou, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2024
• This is a branch of topology, a field of abstract math studying shapes.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 8 July 2021
• These states are described by the mathematics of topology, which is where the name and the fear come from.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• The topology, or global shape, of the surface affects what these paths look like.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2023
• In the field of topology, homology is the formal way to count holes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• Not all the cities connect to each other to form an ideal full star topology.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2020
• The hub and spoke topology communicates the truth of your tool stack better than a simple list can.
  — Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Just as the tops of these trees would reflect the topology of the ground, the tops of these columnar thin films replicate the 3D structure of the fingermarks on which they are deposited.
  — Partha Banerjee, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2024
• Just as the tops of these trees would reflect the topology of the ground, the tops of these columnar thin films replicate the 3D structure of the fingermarks on which they are deposited.
  — Partha Banerjee, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• This breakthrough comes from a branch of mathematics known as topology, which is the study of shapes and their arrangement in space.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• To reckon with optimal shapes is to reckon with the limits of topology.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• These recent studies have opened the door for scientists to study topology in a whole host of other fluids.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
• But in topology, shapes are flexible things, as if made from rubber.
  — quantamagazine.org, 26 Jan. 2021
• To study the quantum hall effect more deeply, physicists turned to a branch of mathematics called topology.
  — Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
• So our next step was to filter the entire zone down to just public land, using a pair of mapping code libraries to analyze the topology of just the area inside the umbra.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 25 July 2017
• Mathematicians in the field of topology study the properties of shapes, called manifolds, like the sphere.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• So, topology, must be telling us something about what the brain is actually doing.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2017
• This topology helps to cut signal distortion, which leads to a purer and more engaging sound.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• The key to their success was something called topology, a branch of mathematics focused on the fundamental shapes of things.
  — Dennis Overbye and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
• The field of topology is something like coarse geometry: Precise shapes and distances do not matter so much.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
• Smooth manifolds are spaces — like lines, circles and the surface of a ball — that play a fundamental role in the study of geometry and topology.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
• Knot theory, a field of topology, is the mathematical study of these kinds of snarls, per Wolfram Alpha.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2020
• The lectures, which Freedman delivered by video feed from his office in Santa Barbara, were an event unto themselves in the topology world.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
• The interior is a topology of the familiar, the amortized-by-the-million, from seats to digital displays to switch assemblies.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
• Whatever the evidence, the topology of multi-hop networks needs less power, as the signals go only a short distance.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2002
• Musk acknowledged on Twitter that the latter idea was less likely to work given the cave’s topology, and it’s unclear how long either might take to design, test and implement.
  — Time, 8 July 2018
• Because the strands of a knot are flexible like string, mathematicians view knot theory as a subfield of topology, the study of malleable shapes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• At times, as in the images of Wharton below, the mud from the flood reveals the underlying topology of the land, showing how the bayou might flow without human intervention.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
• Bill Thurston was a mathematician who turned the subject of three-dimensional topology upside down.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024