bigluing

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noun

A category of quadruples related to the gluing construction.

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Meanings

nounbigluing (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemathematicsA category of quadruples related to the gluing construction.

    This yields a new explanation of the definition of Reedy categories: they are almost exactly those small categories for which the category of diagrams and its model structure can be constructed by iterated bigluing.

    2015, Michael Shulman, “Reedy categories and their generalizations”, in arXiv

Origin

From bi- + gluing.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bigluing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigluing.

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