Word Type

Noun

The word "category" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Cartesian closed category Goguen category Kleisli category abelian category additive category anticategory balanced category bicartesian closed category bicategory categorification categorify categorisation categorist category error category five category fraud category killer category mistake category reference category theory category-mistake categoryless child category cocategory comma category coslice category discrete category free category functor category grammatical category intercategory intracategory lexical category macrocategory microcategory monoidal category multicategory overcategory perceptual category pre-abelian category pre-additive category preabelian category preadditive category precategory semicategory slice category small category subcategory supercategory tetracategory tricategory

Context

mathematics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

accumulation aggregation assemblage collection concept conception construct

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Eilenberg-Moore category Kleisli category conceptual category macrocategory microcategory monoid partially ordered set perceptual category subcategory supercategory

Type Of (IsA)

concept

Made Of

objects and morphisms between objects

Related Terms

categorial categorical categorise categorize

Related Terms

arrows assign associative closed collection composable criteria group identity name number objects similarity transitive

Synonym Network

class

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