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morphism

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Meaning

  1. noun (formally) An arrow in a category; (less formally) an abstraction that generalises a map from one mathematical object to another and is structure-preserving in a way that depends on the branch of mathematics from which it arises.
  2. noun Being or having distinct variants of a plant or animal species in the same locale; polymorphism.

Similar words

injective comorphism functor morphism set multicategory monomorphism epimorphism orthomorphism universal morphism diagonal morphism

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