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coproduct en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Latin prōductusder. Middle English product English product English coproduct From co- + product.

Meanings

  1. Any of multiple products that are produced at the same time, or by the same process
  2. The colimit of two (or more) objects, without regard to any morphisms between them.
    • The coproduct is a structure constructed from several similar structures, equipped with appropriate inclusion maps, which generalises the disjoint union of sets, of topological spaces and the free product of groups.

Forms

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Hyponyms

free product · disjoint union · direct sum · wedge sum

Meronyms

inclusion

Relateds

categorical product · product

Translations (2)

ru копроизведение (mathematical structure) · de Koprodukt (mathematical structure)