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categorify

categorify verb: to define a theorem in terms of category theory.

Verb

categorify (third-person singular simple present categorifies, present participle categorifying, simple past and past participle categorified)

  1. (transitive) To define a theorem in terms of category theory

Forms of categorify

third-person singular presentcategorifies
present participlecategorifying
past participlecategorified
pastcategorified

Origin of categorify

From category + -fy.

Words formed from categorify

Questions about categorify

What does categorify mean?
Categorify means to define a theorem in terms of category theory.
What part of speech is categorify?
Categorify is a verb.
What is the past tense of categorify?
The past tense of categorify is categorified.

Words near categorify in the dictionary

  1. categories
  2. categorification
  3. categorifications
  4. categorified
  5. categorifies
  6. categorify
  7. categorifying
  8. categorisability
  9. categorisable
  10. categorisation
  11. categorisations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: categorify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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