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Null object

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zero objectnoun(category theory) An object which is both an initial object and a terminal object.
terminal objectnoun(category theory) An object within a category which receives arrows from all other objects in that category, and such that each of these arrows is unique.
initial objectnoun(category theory) An object within a category which sends out arrows to all other objects in that category, and such that each of these arrows is unique.
objectnounA thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
global elementnoun(category theory) A morphism from the terminal object to a given object (to which it is said to belong).
universal morphismnoun(category theory) The terminal object of a comma category from a functor to a fixed object; or, dually, the initial object of a comma category from a fixed object to a functor.
small categorynoun(category theory) A category such that all of its objects form a set and all of its morphisms form a set.
generic elementnoun(category theory) The identity element of an object when thought of as a generalized element of that object.
monadnounOne thing, one being, one item.
subobject classifiernoun(category theory) An object which serves as the codomain of a classifying morphism, together with a "true" global element of the said object.
subobjectnounAn object that is part of another object.
bicartesian closed categorynoun(category theory) A Cartesian closed category which also has an initial object and such that for any pair of objects, A and B, in the category, the category has another object which is their coproduct, A∐B.
relationnounThe manner in which two things may be associated.
identity functornoun(category theory) A functor from a category to itself which maps each object of that category to itself and each morphism of that category to itself.
natural numbers objectnoun(category theory) An object which has a distinguished global element (which may be called z, for “zero”) and a distinguished endomorphism (which may be called s, for “successor”) such that iterated compositions of s upon z (i.e., sⁿ∘z) yields other global elements of the same object which correspond to the natural numbers (sⁿ∘z↔n). Such object has the universal property that for any other object with a distinguished global element (call it z’) and a distinguished endomorphism (call it s’), there is a unique morphism (call it φ) from the given object to the other object which maps z to z’ (ϕ∘z=z') and which commutes with s; i.e., ϕ∘s=s'∘ϕ.
elementary toposnoun(category theory) A Cartesian closed category which has a subobject classifier.
generalized elementnoun(category theory) A morphism whose codomain is some specified object.
cartesian closed categorynoun(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.
cokernelnoun(mathematics, category theory) The target of operatorname cokerf, denoted operatorname Cokerf.
comma categorynoun(category theory) A category built out of a pair of functors that have the same codomain.

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