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Nov 8, 2009
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top•i•cal



Pronunciation: (top'i-kul), [key]
—adj.
1. pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
2. pertaining to the subject of a discourse, composition, or the like.
3. of a place; local.
4. Med.of, pertaining to, or applied externally to a particular part of the body; local: a topical anesthetic.

—n.
Philately.any of a collection of different stamps treating the same subject.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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