Meanings
- 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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