"free category" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: free categories [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} free category (plural free categories)
  1. (category theory) A category that is induced by a multidigraph thus: it has as its objects the vertices of the multidigraph and its morphisms are paths in the multidigraph; composition of morphisms is concatenation of paths, as long as the end of one path coincides with the beginning of the other path; an identity morphism of an object is an “empty path” at that vertex. Wikipedia link: free category Categories (topical): Category theory Hyponyms: free monoid

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