Etymology

adjoint functor

Today it means: One of a pair of functors such that the domain and codomain of one of them are identical to the codomain and domain of the other one, respectively, and such that there is a pair of natural transformations which turns the pair of functors into an adjunction. Full definition →

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The story

See Galois connection.

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