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topical examples
plural topics
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest. quotations examples
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
(Internet) Discussion thread. examples
(music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre. quotations examples
In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics, page 9
(obsolete) An argument or reason. quotations
contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion
(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc. quotations
Amongst topics or outward medicines none are more precious than baths.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps