adjunction

English

Etymology

From Latin adjunctio, from adjungere: compare French adjonction, and see adjunct.

Noun

adjunction (countable and uncountable, plural adjunctions)

  1. The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
  2. (category theory) A form of similarity between a pair of categories, which are mapped to each other by a pair of adjoint functors which come with a related pair of natural transformations called unit and counit which satisfy a pair of triangular identities.
  3. (law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.

Translations

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.