Top-down
# Top-down

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)
