Arts and entertainment
* " Top Down", a 2007 song by Swizz Beatz * "Top Down", a song by Lil Yachty from '' Lil Boat 3'' * "Top Down", a song by Fifth Harmony from '' Reflection''Science
* Top-down reading, is a part of reading science that explains the reader's psycholinguistic strategies in using grammatical and lexical knowledge for comprehension rather than linearly decoding texts. * Top-down proteomics, a method for protein analysis * Top-down effects, effects of population density on a resource in a soil food web *Computing
* Top-down and bottom-up design of information ordering * Top-down parsing, a parsing strategy beginning at the highest level of the parse tree ** Top-down parsing language, an analytic formal grammar to study top-down parsers * Top-down perspective, a camera angle in computer and video games * Top-down shooter, a subgenre of video gamesInvesting
* Top-down investment analysis, an investment selection technique that evaluates macro factors (e.g., economy and industry) before micro factors (e.g., specific company)See also
* Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts, including writing in columns going from top to bottom and ordered from right to left * Bottom-up (disambiguation) {{disambiguation