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topos
/ˈtoʊpɒs/
noun 3
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
3
A toilet.
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