Dual vs Adjunction - What's the difference?
dual | adjunction |
Exhibiting duality; characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
Acting as a counterpart.
Double.
(grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two of something, such as a pair of shoes, in the context of the singular', '''plural''' and in some languages, ' trial grammatical number. Modern Arabic displays a dual number, as did Homeric Greek.
(linear algebra)
(category theory)
Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.
(geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V'' vertices and ''F'' faces, the regular polyhedron having ''F'' vertices and ''V faces.
(grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of', ' exactly two of ), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.
(mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
(category theory) A form of similarity between a pair of categories mapped to each other by dual morphisms.
(legal) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
As nouns the difference between dual and adjunction
is that dual is dual while adjunction is the act of joining; the thing joined or added.dual
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- dual-headed computer
Derived terms
* duality * dualismNoun
(en noun)- The octahedron is the dual of the cube.