functor in Irish
functor in Irish is feidhmeoir — functor means a grammar term for a word that mainly shows relationships between other words, rather than carrying meaning of its own.
functor in Irish
feidhmeoir
(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either covariantly or contravariantly), in such a way as to preserve morphism composition and identities.
What does "functor" mean?
- noun A grammar term for a word that mainly shows relationships between other words, rather than carrying meaning of its own.
- noun In computing, an object that behaves as if it were a function.
- noun In mathematics, a mapping between two categories that turns objects into objects and arrows into arrows while keeping how they combine and their identities intact.
- noun In programming, a type that lets a function be applied to the values held inside it, based on the same idea as its mathematical namesake.
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What is "functor" in Irish?
"functor" in Irish is feidhmeoir. functor means: A grammar term for a word that mainly shows relationships between other words, rather than carrying meaning of its own.
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