topos

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  • I have several of these wall topos, too, and as previous posters have mentioned, the craftsmanship is excellent. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • TerraFly will show the user a new and innovative way to explore their digital earth View topos, aerial photos, imagery, and census data —  GISuser - GIS and Geospatial Technology News
  • We introduce some axioms and prove a theorem of characterization of the category (topos) of actions of a discrete group. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The theorem of Grothendieck characterizes the category (topos) of continuous actions of a profinite topological group. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Deathly Hallows items Ms. Rowling has identified in interviews as "key" to understanding her novels, (2) Logos reflection as the means to God (Penn's and Paul's "seeing face to face" mirror imagery) is a topos or commonplace of symbolist writing, the stream of English literature in which Ms. Rowling writes, and (3) the text of —  HogwartsProfessor.com
 

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  1. Greek, short for (koinos) topos, (common)place.
 

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