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cospan

noun

Etymology

From co- + span.

  1. derived from *(s)pend-✻ — “to stretch”
  2. inherited from *spannō✻ — “span, handbreadth”
  3. inherited from spann
  4. inherited from spanne
  5. prefixed as cospan — “co + span”

Definitions

  1. The dual of a span.

    • This extra structure arises from a lax symmetric monoidal functor F#92;colon#92;mathbf#123;C#125;#92;to#92;mathbf#123;D#125;; we use this functor to "decorate" each cospan with apex N#92;in#92;mathbf#123;C#125; with an element of F(N).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cospan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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