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> Is there an accepted terminology for semigroups with many objects, i.e.
> gadgets that satisfy the all the axioms satisfied by categories excepti=
ng
> those
> which refer to identities ?

Koslowski calls these "taxonomies", see e.g. "Monads and interpolads in
bicategories" (TAC vol 3, no 8 (1997)).

     Duraid