mapping vs topology

mapping

noun
  • The process of making maps. 

  • The process of locating genes on a chromosome. 

  • A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence. 

  • conversion of data types between incompatible type systems. 

  • Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network. 

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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