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bicategory

noun

Etymology

From bi- + category.

  1. derived from κατηγορία — “head of predicables”
  2. derived from catēgoria — “class of predicables”
  3. derived from categorie
  4. derived from catégorie
  5. prefixed as bicategory — “bi + category”

Definitions

  1. A particular construct in category theory, used to extend the notion of category to…

    A particular construct in category theory, used to extend the notion of category to handle the cases where the composition of morphisms is not (strictly) associative, but only associative up to an isomorphism.

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