OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 42614

morphism

/ˈmɔːfɪzəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
morfismo
(formally) An arrow in a category; (less formally) an abstraction that generalises a map from one mathematical object to another and is structure-preserving in a way that depends on the branch of mathematics from which it arises.
1982, Israel Program for Scientific Translations (translator), Lev J. Leifman (editor of translation), N. N. Čencov, Statistical Decision Rules and Optimal Inference, American Math…
1992, Terrance Brown (translator), Gil Henriques, Chapter 13: Morphisms and Transformations in the Construction of Invariants, Terrance Brown (translator), Jean Piaget, Gil Henriqu…
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