Top most commonly refers to: * Top, a basic term of orientation, distinguished from bottom, front, back, and sides *

Spinning top A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be rotation, spun on its vertical Axis of rotation, axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect. Once set in motion, a top will ...

, a ubiquitous traditional toy *

Top (clothing) A top, or topwear, is an item of clothing that covers at least the chest, but which usually covers most of the upper human body between the neck and the waistline (clothing), waistline. The bottom of tops can be as short as mid-torso, or as long as ...

, 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 A Munro (; ) is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nevi ...

* 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 * United States military jargon for specific non-commissioned-officer ranks: **

First sergeant First sergeant is typically a senior non-commissioned officer rank, used in many countries. Singapore First sergeant is a Specialist (Singapore), specialist in the Singapore Armed Forces. First sergeants are the most senior of the junior spe ...

, Army **

Master sergeant A master sergeant is the military rank for a senior non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries. Israel Defense Forces The (abbreviated "", master sergeant) is a non-commissioned officer () rank in the Israel Defense Force ...

, Marine Corps * Jargon for roles in human-sexuality: ** Top, or dominant, role in

BDSM BDSM is a variety of often Eroticism, erotic practices or Sexual roleplay, roleplaying involving Bondage (BDSM), bondage, Discipline (BDSM), discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given ...

practices ** One in a triad of sexual postural preferences, specifically

Top, bottom and versatile In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during human sexual activity, sexual activity, especially between two (or more) males. A ''top'' is usually a person who sexual penetration, penetrates, a ''bottom'' is usually one who rec ...

** A slang term for the act of

Fellatio Fellatio (also known as fellation, and in slang as blowjob, BJ, giving head, or sucking off) is an oral sex act consisting of the stimulation of a human penis, penis by using the mouth. Oral stimulation of the scrotum may also be termed ''fellat ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Top (character) The Top (Roscoe Neyle Dillon) is a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The character has made limited appearances across DC-related media while a female version appeared in the live-action television series '' The Flash'' ...

, 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 Network, regional television station in Papua, Indonesia * ''Top'' (album), a 2020 album by Youngboy Never Broke Again * "Top" (Stray Kids song), 2020 * "Top", a 1993 song by Live, from the album ''

Throwing Copper ''Throwing Copper'' is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Live, released on April 26, 1994, on former MCA Records subsidiary Radioactive Records. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and was recorded at Pac ...

'' * "Top", a 2020 song by

Fredo Bang Fredrick Dewon Thomas Givens II (born March 29, 1996), known professionally as Fredo Bang, is an American rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is best known for his 2020 single "Top" (remixed featuring Lil Durk), which received platinum certi ...

* "Top", a 2025 song by Bini *

Top (band) Top was a British rock band from Liverpool, signed to Island Records in the early 1990s. Top's drummer, Alan Wills, had played with The Wild Swans in the 1980s. The group signed to Island Records and released the album ''Emotion Lotion'' in 1991 ...

, a British rock band

Brands and enterprises

Top (rolling papers) Top is a brand of cigarette rolling papers distributed by Republic Brands of Glenview, Illinois. Republic Brands (formerly Republic Tobacco) paid an undisclosed amount to acquire the brand from R. J. Reynolds in 1987. Manufactured and imported ...

, brand for hand-rolled cigarettes *

Top Air Top Air (''Trans Of Pattimura'') was an airline from Indonesia, which offered scheduled passenger flights from its base at Jalaluddin Airport to a number of domestic destinations using a single Boeing 727-200 aircraft. Founded in 2004, it had i ...

, Indonesian airline company *

Top Oil Top Oil (formally Tedcastles Oil Products Unlimited Company) is an Republic of Ireland, Irish-based petrol company founded in 1960 which trades under the brand name "Top". Before a rebranding in 1998, the company variously traded as "Tedcastles Oi ...

, Irish oil company

Computing

Top (software) top is a task manager or system monitor program, found in many Unix-like operating systems, that displays information about CPU and memory utilization. Overview The program produces an ordered list of running processes selected by user-specif ...

, a standard Unix program * .top, a generic top level domain *

Top type In mathematical logic and computer science, some type theories and type systems include a top type that is commonly denoted with top or the symbol ⊤. The top type is sometimes called also ''universal type'', or ''universal supertype'' as all oth ...

, in computer science type theory, the data type containing all others * Top of stack, the first element of a

Stack (abstract data type) In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection (abstract data type), collection of elements with two main operations: * Push, which adds an element to the collection, and * Pop, which removes the most recent ...

Mathematics and physics

Top (category theory) In mathematics, the category of topological spaces, often denoted Top, is the category whose objects are topological spaces and whose morphisms are continuous maps. This is a category because the composition of two continuous maps is again cont ...

, a category of topological spaces or topological manifolds *

Top (algebra) In the context of a module ''M'' over a ring ''R'', the top of ''M'' is the largest semisimple quotient module of ''M'' if it exists. For finite-dimensional ''k''-algebras (''k'' a field) R, if rad(''M'') denotes the intersection of all proper ma ...

, in module theory, the largest semisimple quotient of a module * Top, written ⊤ or 1, in lattice theory, the

greatest element In mathematics, especially in order theory, the greatest element of a subset S of a partially ordered set (poset) is an element of S that is greater than every other element of S. The term least element is defined duality (order theory), dually ...

in a partially ordered set * Top, down tack, or

Tee (symbol) The tee (⊤, \top in LaTeX), also called down tack (as opposed to the up tack) or verum, is a symbol used to represent: * The top element in lattice theory. * The truth value of being true in logic, or a sentence (e.g., formula in propositional c ...

, the symbol ⊤ *

Top quark The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles. It derives its mass from its coupling to the Higgs field. This coupling is very close to unity; in the Standard ...

, the third-generation up-type quark

Other uses

Top (sailing ship) The top on a traditional square rigged ship is the platform at the upper end of each (lower) Mast_(sailing), mast. This is not the masthead "crow's nest" of the popular imagination – above the mainmast (for example) is the main-topmast, main-to ...

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