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bicategories

bicategories is the plural of bicategory.

Meaning of bicategory

Noun

bicategory (plural bicategories)

  1. 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.

Questions about bicategories

What is bicategories the plural of?
Bicategories is the plural of bicategory.

Words near bicategories in the dictionary

  1. BICARSA
  2. bicartesian closed categories
  3. bicartesian closed category
  4. bicast
  5. bicategorical
  6. bicategories
  7. bicategorized
  8. bicategory
  9. bication
  10. bications
  11. bicaudal

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