How to Use topological in a Sentence

topological

adjective
  • The painting is also a superb topological map of open wounds.
    — Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever, Vulture, 11 May 2023
  • One potential way to reduce the heat problem is with a topological design.
    — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Alternating dark and light lines represent lines of constant gap height, much like the lines on a topological map.
    — Discover Magazine, 15 May 2013
  • These turned out to be EFSs, a new kind of topological defect.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
  • In a way, the old joke about the doughnut and coffee cup misunderstands the power of topological thinking.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Optimization was used to increase a measure called the topological gap.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
  • So, no one was exactly sure if a topological insulator laser could exist.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The result is the first direct measurement of the topological order of a quantum spin liquid.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • But its topological properties don’t change, even though its geometry does.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2022
  • This means that from a topological point of view, a curve actually looks like a two-dimensional surface — and that surface can have holes.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022
  • As human culture tried to make sense of life in the middle of a global, decentralized network, topological metaphors ruled.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • This is partly because the strongest knot invariants tend to emerge from the study of profound topological structures within knots.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Instead of just copying a polygon on a flat plane, this approach maps copies of polygons onto topological surfaces, doughnuts with one or more holes in them.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This is a recognizably topological result — the size of each of the city’s landmasses doesn’t matter, nor does the length of the bridges between them.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • The field of topological quantum computing still has promise, but the task has shown itself to be even more difficult than researchers first imagined.
    — Michael Moyer, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The most popular error correction codes are called topological quantum codes.
    — Zaira Nazario, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • There is an object, called a homology, which gives you a lot of topological information about the manifold.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Microsoft's quantum computing efforts are built around a concept called a topological qubit.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • In the paper, the scientists use pressure maps—like topological geographical maps, but for the depth of each footprint.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Shaghoulian observed that this split was analogous to the kind that enlarges the Hilbert spaces of topological field theories.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2025
  • This fundamental leap in computing enables the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.
    — Dr. Ekta Dang, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • In this research, my colleagues and I have developed a silicon topological beamformer chip.
    — Ranjan Singh, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
  • In this new perspective, topological spaces are thought of as being assembled from infinite points of dust glued together.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2015
  • The study found that there are four times in our lives when the brain undergoes significant topological changes before stabilizing for a period of years.
    — New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2025
  • By some trick of physics, the topological twists in the interior translated into an edge current that flowed without dissipating.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2023
  • The researchers’ simulations successfully recreated what a topological soliton would look like if placed in front of a camera lens.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • On the surface of a topological insulator, electrons flow smoothly, while on the inside, electrons are immobile.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The three men invigorated the field of topological chemistry, the academy said on Wednesday.
    — Kenneth Chang and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Now research suggests that advanced topological materials may ultimately help to achieve such links.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Very roughly, this result produces a count of solutions to special differential equations on curved spaces in topological terms.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021

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