A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
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Monoid
//ˈmɒnɔɪd//
Synonyms for "monoid"
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16 translations across 13 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 幺半群 noun (type of set)
Czech
1 entries- monoid noun (type of set)
Finnish
1 entries- monoidi noun (type of set)
French
1 entries- monoïde noun (type of set)
German
1 entries- Monoid noun (type of set)
Hindi
1 entries- एकाभ noun (type of set)
Icelandic
2 entries- einungur noun (type of set)
- hálfgrúpa með hlutleysu noun (type of set)
Polish
1 entries- monoid noun (type of set)
Portuguese
1 entries- monóide noun (type of set)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- monoid noun (type of set)
- моноид noun (type of set)
Spanish
1 entries- monoide noun (type of set)
Swedish
1 entries- monoid noun (type of set)
Turkish
2 entries- birlik noun (type of set)
- monoid noun (type of set)
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Just like any abstraction, a monoid is useful to the extent we can write useful generic code assuming only the capabilities provided by the abstraction.
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