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 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, Army ** Master sergeant, Marine Corps * 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) 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'' * "Top", a 2020 song by Fredo Bang * "Top", a 2025 song by Bini * 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, a generic top level domain * 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) 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), 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 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 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), part of a ship's rigging * Top (tool), tool for rope manufacture