cospan

noun

noun

Etymology From co- + span.

Mathematics, Sciences The dual of a span.

This extra structure arises from a lax symmetric monoidal functor F#92;colon#92;mathbf#123;C#125;#92;to#92;mathbf#123;D#125;; we use this functor to "decorate" each cospan with apex N#92;in#92;mathbf#123;C#125; with an element of F(N).2016, Kenny Courser, “A bicategory of decorated cospans”, in arXiv:

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