adjunction

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Synonyms: abjunction, junction, adjuration, injunction, sejunction, adjunctive, adunation, adduction, t-junction, t junction, adjection

Antonyms: abjunction, junction, adjuration, injunction, sejunction, adjunctive, adunation, adduction, t-junction, t junction, adjection

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|joining}} The act of [[join]]ing; the thing joined or added.
2. {{senseid|en|legal}} {{lb|en|legal}} The joining of [[personal property]] owned by one to that owned by another.
3. {{lb|en|mathematics|chiefly|algebra|and|number theory}} The process of [[adjoin]]ing elements to an [[algebraic structure]] (usually a [[ring]] or [[field]]); the result of such a process.
4. {{lb|en|category theory|loosely}} A relationship between a pair of [[category|categories]] that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent.
5. {{senseid|en|category}} {{lb|en|category theory|strictly}} A [[natural isomorphism]] between a pair of [[functor]]s satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their ([[codomain|co]])[[domain]]s; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single [[object]].

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