form vs topology

form

noun
  • The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. 

  • A specific way of performing a movement. 

  • A quantic. 

  • A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form). 

  • Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. 

  • Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. 

  • A specimen document to be copied or imitated. 

  • A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. 

  • A blank document or template to be filled in by the user. 

  • Level of performance. 

  • Regularity, beauty, or elegance. 

  • The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid. 

  • A window or dialogue box. 

  • Characteristics not involving atomic components. 

  • A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. 

  • Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. 

  • The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. 

  • A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). 

  • The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists. 

  • An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. 

  • The den or home of a hare. 

  • An infraspecific rank. 

verb
  • To provide (a hare) with a form. 

  • To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). 

  • To mould or model by instruction or discipline. 

  • To constitute, to compose, to make up. 

  • To put together or bring into being; assemble. 

  • To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current. 

  • To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. 

  • To create (a word) by inflection or derivation. 

  • To take shape. 

topology

noun
  • The anatomical structure of part of the body. 

  • The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application. 

  • The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history. 

  • The arrangement of nodes in a communications network. 

  • The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing). 

  • Any collection τ of subsets of a given set X that contains both the empty set and X, and which is closed under finitary intersections and arbitrary unions. 

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