wat is topology?

wat is history of this word

topology for goemetry and topology for mesh are different or same ?

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Topology comes from the greek words "tòpos" (place) and "logos", (study).

This term has different meanings according to the subject it refers to:

1) In general, the topology studies the morphology of a scenery.

2) It also represents studies the position of words in a sentence.

3) In math, it studies of those properties of geometrical entities, which doesn't change if you apply to them a continuous deformation.

Geometry also comes from the greek words "Ge" (Earth) and "metrìa" (Measure). It studies the gemoetrica forms and their properties.

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ap

thanks

I got all the things u explained it is really a nice explanation

my another question is: wat are topologies meant to cfd and meshing. when we are talking about quadilateral, triangular , pave , map , cooper etc. in all these which are the topologies

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