Word.ws English Dictionary

pointless topologies

pointless topologies is the plural of pointless topology.

Meaning of pointless topology

Noun

pointless topology (usually uncountable, plural pointless topologies)

  1. (usually) An approach to topology that avoids mentioning points.
    • The works of Ehresmann [1957/58], Benabou [1957/58], Papert and Papert [1957/58] give rise to pointless topology, i.e. an abstract treatment of a class of lattices (the frames) extending the class whose members are the lattices of open sets of the topological spaces.1995, Francis Buekenhout, editor, Handbook of Incidence Geometry: Buildings and Foundations, North-Holland: Elsevier, page 1018

Questions about pointless topologies

What is pointless topologies the plural of?
Pointless topologies is the plural of pointless topology.

Words near pointless topologies in the dictionary

  1. pointing-trowels
  2. pointingly
  3. pointings
  4. pointism
  5. pointless
  6. pointless topologies
  7. pointless topology
  8. pointlesse
  9. pointlessly
  10. pointlessness
  11. pointlessnesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pointless topologies (page history and authors); pointless topology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pointless topologies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pointless_topologies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.