"Cartesian closed category" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Cartesian closed categories [plural]
Etymology: Named after René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, whose formulation of analytic geometry gave rise to the concept of Cartesian product, which was later generalized to the notion of categorical product. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Cartesian closed category (plural Cartesian closed categories)
  1. (category theory) A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A × B and an exponential object Bᴬ. Wikipedia link: Cartesian closed category, René Descartes Categories (topical): Category theory Synonyms: CCC Hypernyms: Cartesian monoidal category, Cartesian category, closed monoidal category, monoidal category Hyponyms: bicartesian closed category, topos

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