Associations to the word «Category»

CATEGORY, noun. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

CATEGORY, noun. (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

CATEGORY KILLER, noun. (business) (US) A retailer that offers a wider selection of merchandise in a category than existing retailers, at lower prices, thereby gaining substantial share of the market and "killing" the existing retailers.

CATEGORY KILLERS, noun. Plural of category killer

CATEGORY MISTAKE, noun. A semantic or ontological error by which a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.

CATEGORY MISTAKES, noun. Plural of category mistake

CATEGORY THEORY, noun. (mathematics) A branch of mathematics which deals with spaces and maps between them in abstraction, taking similar theorems from various disparate more concrete branches of mathematics and unifying them.

CATEGORY, noun. A collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents".

CATEGORY, noun. A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme.