Top-down may refer to:
Top-down camera, a still- or video camera pointed down in a vertical line perpendicular to the subject Multiplane camera, in 2D animation creation
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 "Topdown", a song by Channel Tres from the Channel Tres EP 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)