English Explanatory Dictionary

bicategory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

bicategory bicategories

Etymology

From bi- + category.

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