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 April 2025
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
