additive category

noun

A preadditive category in which all finite biproducts (including the empty biproduct, which by definition must be a zero object) exist.

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Meanings

nounadditive category (plural additive categories)

plural additive categories

  1. mathematicsA preadditive category in which all finite biproducts (including the empty biproduct, which by definition must be a zero object) exist.
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