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  • Of or referring to topology.

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  • adjective mathematics of or relating to topology

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  • adjective of or relating to topology

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  • His first hypothesis was / is that the mind is made up of strata, rather like an archaeological site - this we call his topological model - First we have the surface layer called the conscious, the next the preconscious and the third and deepest the unconscious.

    planet.journals.ie 2009

  • His first hypothesis was / is that the mind is made up of strata, rather like an archaeological site - this we call his topological model - First we have the surface layer called the conscious, the next the preconscious and the third and deepest the unconscious.

    Still Point 2009

  • This projection of a punctured sphere S2 on the Euclidean E2 is not only topological, that is bi-continuous, but also con - formal, that is angle-preserving; and this was already known to the astronomer and geographer Ptolemy in the second century A.D. in his Geography (M.R. Cohen and I.E. Drabkin, pp. 169-79).

    INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • The work by the Princeton team is part of an ongoing inquiry into materials called topological insulators -- substances that act as insulators in their interior while permitting the movement of charges on their boundary.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The work by the Princeton team is part of an ongoing inquiry into materials called topological insulators -- substances that act as insulators in their interior while permitting the movement of charges on their boundary.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • They are called topological insulators and conduct electricity by harnessing a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • They are called topological insulators and conduct electricity by harnessing a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • The results, published online June 11 in Science Express, show a clear signature of what is called a topological insulator, a material that enables the free flow of electrons across its surface with no loss of energy.

    innovations-report 2009

  • Science Express, show a clear signature of what is called a topological insulator, a material that enables the free flow of electrons across its surface with no loss of energy.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • For a given surface, such as a torus or even the (humorously named) dunce cap, the fundamental group is the set of loops in the space that have the following characteristic: each loop can be continuously deformed to one another, a relation known as topological space X, the fundamental group construction associates an algebraic object which describes the set of "holes" in the space.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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