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Top-down may refer to:

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
• Neural top–down control of physiology
• Top-down processing, in Pattern recognition (psychology)

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 games

Investing

• 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 pages