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subfunctors

subfunctors is the plural of subfunctor.

Meaning of subfunctor

Noun

subfunctor (plural subfunctors)

  1. A functor such that all of the objects it maps are mapped by the parent functor, and for any arrow it maps the parent functor includes the same mapping (although it may also map arrows from the same domain to additional images outside the image of the subfunctor).
    • Also, if k is noetherian, then any subfunctor of a finitely generated functor is finitely generated.2015, Serge Bouc, Jacques Thévenaz, “The representation theory of finite sets and correspondences”, in arXiv

Questions about subfunctors

What is subfunctors the plural of?
Subfunctors is the plural of subfunctor.

Words near subfunctors in the dictionary

  1. subfunctionalize
  2. subfunctionalized
  3. subfunctioning
  4. subfunctions
  5. subfunctor
  6. subfunctors
  7. subfund
  8. subfunds
  9. subfurcate
  10. subfurfuraceous
  11. subfusc

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