Pushout
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pushout is a noun meaning (category theory) The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
Meaning
(category theory) The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
More Meanings
- A person who is expelled from school or who drops out because of a lack of support.
Example Sentences
For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon.
Word Forms
- pushouts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include projection, intersection, pullback, coproduct, colimit, epimorphism.
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