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faithful functor

faithful functor noun: a functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source hom-set is injective into the corresponding target hom-set.

Noun

faithful functor (plural faithful functors)

  1. A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source hom-set is injective into the corresponding target hom-set.

Forms of faithful functor

pluralfaithful functors

Questions about faithful functor

What does faithful functor mean?
Faithful functor means a functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source hom-set is injective into the corresponding target hom-set.
What part of speech is faithful functor?
Faithful functor is a noun.
What is the plural of faithful functor?
The plural of faithful functor is faithful functors.

Words near faithful functor in the dictionary

  1. faitheist
  2. faitheists
  3. faithes
  4. faithful
  5. faithful as a dog
  6. faithful functor
  7. faithful functors
  8. faithfulest
  9. faithfull
  10. faithfullest
  11. faithfully

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