Top

Top most commonly refers to:


 * Top, a basic term of orientation, distinguished from bottom, front, back, and sides
 * Spinning top, a ubiquitous traditional toy
 * Top (clothing), clothing designed to be worn over the torso
 * Mountain top, a mountain peak located at some distance from the nearest point of higher elevation

Top may also refer to:

Geography

 * Top, any subsidiary summit of a munro
 * Proper names of geographical features:
 * Top River, tributary of the Olt, in Romania
 * Top, Oghuz, a village in Azerbaijan
 * Top, Zangilan, a village near Zangilan, Azerbaijan

People

 * Top (surname)
 * Noordin Mohammad Top (1968–2009), a Malaysian/Indonesian Muslim extremist
 * U.S. military jargon for specific non-commissioned-officer ranks:
 * Army First Sergeant
 * Marine Corps Master Sergeant
 * Jargon for roles in human-sexuality:
 * Top, or dominant, role in BDSM practices
 * One in a triad of sexual postural preferences, specifically Top, bottom and versatile
 * A slang term for the act of Fellatio

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Top (character), a supervillain character from the DC Comics universe
 * The Top (album), a 1984 album by The Cure
 * "The Top" (short story), a short story by Franz Kafka
 * Top TV Papua, regional television station in Papua, Indonesia
 * Top (album), a 2020 album by Youngboy Never Broke Again
 * Top (song), a song by Stray Kids
 * "Top", a song by Live, from the album Throwing Copper
 * "Top", a song by Fredo Bang
 * Top (band), a British rock band

Brands and enterprises

 * Top (rolling papers), brand for hand-rolled cigarettes
 * Top Air, Indonesian airline company
 * Top Oil, Irish oil company

Computing

 * Top (software), a standard Unix program
 * .top domain, a gTLD (generic top level domain) existing since 2014
 * Top type, in computer science type theory, the data type containing all others
 * Top of stack, the first element of a Stack (abstract data type)

Mathematics and physics

 * Top (category theory), written Top, a category of topological spaces or topological manifolds
 * Top (algebra), in module theory, the largest semisimple quotient of a module
 * Top, written ⊤ or 1, in lattice theory, the greatest element in a partially ordered set
 * Top (mathematical logic), written top or ⊤, a data type containing all others
 * Top, down tack, or Tee (symbol), the symbol ⊤
 * Top quark, the third-generation up-type quark

Textiles

 * Top (sailing ship), part of a ship's rigging
 * Top (tool), tool for rope manufacture