"bicategory" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bicategories [plural]
Etymology: From bi- + category. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|bi|category}} bi- + category Head templates: {{en-noun}} bicategory (plural bicategories)
  1. (mathematics) 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. Wikipedia link: bicategory Categories (topical): Mathematics

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