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What is a functor?

What is a functor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (grammar) a function word
  2. (object-oriented programming) a function object
  3. (category theory) A morphism between two categories which maps objects from the source category to objects of the target category and arrows from the source category to arrows of the target category, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows), preserve composition, and preserve identities.
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A polyad is a lax functor from a small category to the bicategory of categories, and a Hopf polyad is a comonoidal polyad whose fusion operators are invertible.
In contrast with previous works, the current study is based on phonological and functor innovations.
In fact, essentially every invariant studied by topologists can be made into a representable or corepresentable functor.
Also, objects that are not isomorphic in one category might become isomorphic when a functor is applied.
A new semisymmetrization functor, which maps the category of quasigroups with homotopies to the category of semisymmetric quasigroups with homomorphisms is given.
In this, as in some other articles the operation of modelling is represented as a functor in the categorical language.

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