cospans

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A form of cospan — The dual of a span.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of cospan

    With the ensuing notion of composition inherited from the pushout of cospans, we call these equivalence relations \emph{corelations}.

    2016, Brandon Coya, Brendan Fong, “Corelations are the prop for extraspecial commutative Frobenius monoids”, in arXiv
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