locality vs topology

locality

noun
  • The features or surroundings of a particular place. 

  • Limitation to a county, district, or place. 

  • The fact or quality of having a position in space. 

  • A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village 

  • An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood. 

  • The condition of being local. 

  • The situation or position of an object. 

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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