decategorification
nounEtymology From de- + categorification.
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Mathematics, Sciences The reverse process of categorification: The mapping of a category theoretic category to a set by using a systematic process in which isomorphic objects in a category are identified as equal.
- For the n-levels systems approach we may associate categorification with increasing the level and decategorification with decreasing the level of complexity.2013, Octavian Iordache, Polytope Projects, →ISBN, page 6: