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bicategory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
bi-cat-e-go-ry
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particular construct in category theory, used to extend the notion of category to handle the cases where the composition of morphisms is not (strictly) associative, but only associative up to an isomorphism.

Etymology

From bi- + category.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

bicategories (plural)

Questions

What does bicategory mean?
A particular construct in category theory, used to extend the notion of category to handle the cases where the composition of morphisms is not (strictly) associative, but only associative up to an isomorphism.
Where does bicategory come from?
From bi- + category.

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