"adjoint functor" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: adjoint functors [plural]
Etymology: See Galois connection. Head templates: {{en-noun}} adjoint functor (plural adjoint functors)
  1. (category theory) One of a pair of functors such that the domain and codomain of one of them are identical to the codomain and domain of the other one, respectively, and such that there is a pair of natural transformations which turns the pair of functors into an adjunction. Wikipedia link: Galois connection Categories (topical): Category theory

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