junction, adjunction
(noun) an act of joining or adjoining things
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adjunction (countable and uncountable, plural adjunctions)
The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
(legal) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
(category theory) Given a pair of categories and : an anti-parallel pair of functors and and a natural transformation called “unit” such that for any object , for any object , and for any morphism , there is a unique morphism such that . (Note: there is another natural transformation called “counit” as well but its existence may be derived by theorem.) The pair of functors express a similarity between the pair of categories which is weaker than that of an equivalence of categories.
Hyponyms: equivalence of categories, isomorphism of categories, Galois connection
Meronyms: adjoint, left adjoint, right adjoint
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*junc"tion, n. Etym: [L. adjunctio, fr. adjungere: cf. F. adjonction, and see Adjunct.]
Definition: The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 January 2025
(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; “the child was born prematurely”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
