Adjunction

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of joining; the thing joined or added. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an act of joining or adjoining things wordnet
  3. 3
    The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    The process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process. countable, uncountable

    "The ring obtained after the adjunction of the elements a,b and y to the ring R may be denoted R#91;a,b,y#93;."

  5. 5
    A relationship between a pair of categories that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent. broadly, countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object.; A natural isomorphism Φ: operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(G·,·)→ operatorname Hom_( mathcal )D(·,F·) (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from 𝒟^( operatorname )op×𝒞 to mathbf Set). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia. countable, formal, uncountable

Etymology

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

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