layout vs topology

layout

noun
  • A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions. 

  • A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon. 

  • The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints. 

  • A structured arrangement of items within certain limits. 

  • A plan for such arrangement. 

  • The act of laying out something. 

topology

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

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

  • 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. 

  • The anatomical structure of part of the body. 

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