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underlying functors

underlying functors is the plural of underlying functor.

Meaning of underlying functor

Noun

underlying functor (plural underlying functors)

  1. a forgetful functor
    • 3.1.10 Example If you forget [that] you can compose arrows in a category and you forget which arrows are the identities, then you have remembered only that the category is a graph. This gives an underlying functor U#58;#92;mathbf#123;Cat#125;#92;rightarrow#92;mathbf#123;Grf#125;, since every...1995, Michael Barr with Charles Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science, 2nd edition, University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain: Prentice Hall, §3.1.10, page 57

Questions about underlying functors

What is underlying functors the plural of?
Underlying functors is the plural of underlying functor.

Words near underlying functors in the dictionary

  1. underlyes
  2. underlying
  3. underlying form
  4. underlying forms
  5. underlying functor
  6. underlying functors
  7. underlying set
  8. underlying sets
  9. underlyingly
  10. underlyingness
  11. underlyings

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