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See also:topić,tòpic,topíc,Topič,andtopič

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FromLatintopica, fromAncient Greekτοπικός(topikós,“pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), fromτόπος(tópos,“a place”), ofPre-Greek origin.

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topic

  1. topical

Noun

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topic (pluraltopics)

  1. Subject;theme; a category or general area of interest.
    Synonym:ground
    A society where atopic cannot be discussed, does not have free speech.
    stick to thetopic
    an interestingtopic of conversation
    romance is atopic that frequently comes up in conversation
    • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of theirtopic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy.
  2. (Internet)Discussionthread.
  3. (computing) Acomponent similar to amessage queue which supportsmultiplesubscribers.
  4. (music) Amusicalsign intended to suggest a particularstyle orgenre.
    • 2012, Esti Sheinberg,Music Semiotics, page 9:
      In Peircean terms,topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
  5. (obsolete) An argument or reason.
    • 1675,John Wilkins,Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion:
      contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom notopics can work upon
  6. (obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.

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subject; theme
discussion thread—seethread

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