/ˈtɒpɒs/
OriginFrom Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”). Compare topic.
- A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
“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.”
- A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
- slangA toilet.
Formstopoi(plural) · toposes(plural)