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
  • 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), 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
  • T.O.P (born 최승현, 1987), a South Korean rapper, musician, and actor. Former member of boyband BigBang

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)

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 a partially ordered set<!-- same as computing Top type, but make it easy to find under the Math heading-->
  • Top, down tack, or Tee (symbol), the symbol ⊤
  • Top quark, the third-generation up-type quark

Other uses

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

See also

  • Hardtop, rigid form of automobile roof
  • Softtop, convertible automobile top made out of flexible materials
  • TOP (disambiguation)
  • Tops (disambiguation)
  • Topping (disambiguation)