Bicategory
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bicategory is a noun meaning (mathematics) 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.
Meaning
(mathematics) 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.
Word Forms
- bicategories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cocategory, multicategory, category, projection, overcategory, formation.
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