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pushout

pushout noun: the colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.

Noun

pushout (plural pushouts)

  1. The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
  2. A person who is expelled from school or who drops out because of a lack of support.
    • For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon.1996, Sharon Goodman, David Graddol, Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities, page 221

Forms of pushout

pluralpushouts

Origin of pushout

* Deverbal from push out. * (one who leaves school): Intended to avoid the negative implications of dropout.

Questions about pushout

What does pushout mean?
Pushout means the colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
What part of speech is pushout?
Pushout is a noun.
What is the plural of pushout?
The plural of pushout is pushouts.

Words near pushout in the dictionary

  1. pushmowed
  2. pushmower
  3. pushmowers
  4. pushmowing
  5. pushmows
  6. pushout
  7. pushouts
  8. pushover
  9. pushoverness
  10. pushovers
  11. Pushpa

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