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pseudomonad

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + monad; a trivialized form of the scientific name Pseudomonas.

  1. derived from *men-✻
  2. derived from μονάς
  3. derived from monas — “unit”
  4. prefixed as pseudomonad — “pseudo + monad”

Definitions

  1. Any of many bacteria of the family Pseudomonadaceae, some of which are pathogenic

  2. A weak generalization of a monad on a Gray-category or 2-category (or more generally a…

    A weak generalization of a monad on a Gray-category or 2-category (or more generally a weak 2-category) 𝒞 consists of a 2-functor (in particular, if it is a functor on a weak 2-category, it is a pseudo-functor) T:𝒞→𝒞 equipped with pseudonatural transformations μ:T²→T and η:Id→T which satisfy the monad laws up to coherent invertible modifications.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA