topos
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From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.
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topos (plural topoi or toposes)
- A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 239:
- The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
- (category theory) an elementary topos
- (category theory) a Grothendieck topos
- (Rugby School) a toilet
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literary theme
mathematical structure
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From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”).
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topos m or n (plural topoi, diminutive toposje n)
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From Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”).
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topos m (plural topoi)
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