Usually means: Pairing of functors, unit, counit.
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  2. adjunctions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adjunctions: Vocabulary.com
  4. adjunctions: Wiktionary

(Note: See adjunction as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (adjunction)

noun:  The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
noun:  (law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
noun:  (mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) The process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process.
noun:  (category theory, loosely) A relationship between a pair of categories that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent.
noun:  (category theory, strictly) A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object.
noun:  (formally, given two categories ๐’ž and ๐’Ÿ and (covariant) functors F:๐’žโ†’๐’Ÿ and G:๐’Ÿโ†’๐’ž) A natural isomorphism ฮฆ: operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(Gยท,ยท)โ†’ operatorname Hom_( mathcal )D(ยท,Fยท) (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from ๐’Ÿ^( operatorname )opร—๐’ž to mathbf Set). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
▸ Also see adjunction


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