physical topology

1. 1.

   the appearance of the network

   “the physical topologies of local area networks include the bus, the ring and the star”

   Broadertopology

Questions about physical topology

What does physical topology mean?

physical topology means "the appearance of the network".

Is physical topology a common word?

physical topology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.