Topos

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtÉ’pÉ’s/

Origin

From Ancient Greek τόπος (topos, "place"). Compare topic.

Full definition of topos

Noun

1. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
• 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (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.
2. (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.

Anagrams

• poots
• stoop