adjunction

English

Etymology

From Latin adjunctio, from adjungere: compare French adjonction, and see adjunct.

Noun

adjunction (countable and uncountable, plural adjunctions)

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
(category theory) A form of similarity between a pair of categories, which are mapped to each other by a pair of adjoint functors which come with a related pair of natural transformations called unit and counit which satisfy a pair of triangular identities.
(law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.

Translations

the act of joining

Portuguese: adjunção f

the thing joined or added

a form of similarity between a pair of categories mapped to each other by dual morphisms

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Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} съединение (bg) (sǎedinenie)

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