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Arity vs Multicategory - What's the difference?

arity | multicategory |

As nouns the difference between arity and multicategory

is that arity is (logic|mathematics|computer science) the number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes for a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding cartesian product while multicategory is (mathematics) a generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.

arity

English

Noun

(wikipedia arity) (arities)
  • (logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.

    • Synonyms

    * (number of arguments) adinity, adicity, type, rank

    multicategory

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia multicategory) (multicategories)
  • (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity