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pushouts

pushouts is the plural of pushout.

Meaning of pushout

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

Questions about pushouts

What is pushouts the plural of?
Pushouts is the plural of pushout.

Words near pushouts in the dictionary

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

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