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left inverses

left inverses is the plural of left inverse.

Meaning of left inverse

Noun

left inverse (plural left inverses)

  1. A related function that, given the output of the original function, returns the input that produced that output.
    • In order for a function to have a left inverse it must be injective.
  2. For a given morphism f : X → Y, its right inverse (if it has one) is a morphism s : Y → X such that s∘f= mbox id_X.

Questions about left inverses

What is left inverses the plural of?
Left inverses is the plural of left inverse.

Words near left inverses in the dictionary

  1. left ideals
  2. left identities
  3. left identity
  4. left in the lurch
  5. left inverse
  6. left inverses
  7. left it all out there
  8. left it alone
  9. left it at that
  10. left it be
  11. left it out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: left inverses (page history and authors); left inverse (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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