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well-pointed

well-pointed adjective: said of a category or topos: that it has a terminal object (or that it has no zero object, if it is a topos) and in which any distinct pair of parallel morphisms can be distinguished by their distinct compositions with a global element of their domain; i.e. any pair of parallel morphisms is distinct if and only if there is a global element in their domain that does not equalize them.

Adjective

well-pointed (not comparable)

  1. Said of a category or topos: that it has a terminal object (or that it has no zero object, if it is a topos) and in which any distinct pair of parallel morphisms can be distinguished by their distinct compositions with a global element of their domain; i.e. any pair of parallel morphisms is distinct if and only if there is a global element in their domain that does not equalize them.

Questions about well-pointed

What does well-pointed mean?
Well-pointed means said of a category or topos: that it has a terminal object (or that it has no zero object, if it is a topos) and in which any distinct pair of parallel morphisms can be distinguished by their distinct compositions with a global element of their domain; i.e. any pair of parallel morphisms is distinct if and only if there is a global element in their domain that does not equalize them.
What part of speech is well-pointed?
Well-pointed is an adjective.

Words near well-pointed in the dictionary

  1. well-padded
  2. well-paid
  3. well-placed
  4. well-planned
  5. well-pleased
  6. well-pointed
  7. well-posed
  8. well-posedness
  9. well-positioned
  10. well-practised
  11. well-prepared

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