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
  • The study of knots first grew out of physics but has become a central area of topology.
    — John Etnyre, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
  • This is a branch of topology, a field of abstract math studying shapes.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 8 July 2021
  • At first glance, topology would seem to be a poor fit for the problem of polling site placement.
    — Lyndie Chiou, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Not all the cities connect to each other to form an ideal full star topology.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2020
  • And then the topology is good for studying rates of convergence and that sort of thing.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024
  • The topology, or global shape, of the surface affects what these paths look like.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • But in topology, shapes are flexible things, as if made from rubber.
    — quantamagazine.org, 26 Jan. 2021
  • In topology, the exact shape of a figure doesn’t matter.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 June 2026
  • In the field of topology, homology is the formal way to count holes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 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 hub and spoke topology communicates the truth of your tool stack better than a simple list can.
    — Vanessa Dreifuss, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • This may also be a result of topology, Rogala says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • To reckon with optimal shapes is to reckon with the limits of topology.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • So, topology, must be telling us something about what the brain is actually doing.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • This topology helps to cut signal distortion, which leads to a purer and more engaging sound.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • And within pure mathematics, knots are the key to many central questions in topology.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
  • For nearly 200 years, research in topology proceeded in fits and starts.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Well, there’s a tool that’s a backbone of computational topology.
    — Rachel Crowell, Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
  • These options use two entirely separate output topologies — one is solid state and the other uses tubes or valves.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Among other aims, Eilenberg and MacLane wanted to connect topology with the rest of math.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Which is to say that topology predates topological spaces.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Hausdorff’s book was arguably the beginning of modern topology.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • This is the field of algebraic topology, which studies shapes by translating each space into a piece of algebra.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 30 June 2022
  • Mathematicians in the field of topology study the properties of shapes, called manifolds, like the sphere.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 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
  • Intel uses its mesh topology to create a single, monolithic die that contains all 16 cores.
    — Mark Walton, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017

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