From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5161 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Fred Linton" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: question Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:04:27 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Reply-To: "Fred Linton" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253622435 16727 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2009 12:27:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:27:15 +0000 (UTC) To: "jim stasheff" , Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Sep 22 14:27:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mq4SZ-0004WS-B4 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:27:07 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq3y0-0002j8-AY for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:55:32 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5161 Archived-At: Jim Stasheff asked, > What do you call it when you have one (small) category being a (full) > subcategory of another, and every object in the big category is > isomorphic to one in the small category ? ... One adjective that *had* been used for such a subcategory (whether small, or full, or not) was "replete". I'll defer to others on the question of whether that terminology is still in use today, or is ... um ... *deprecated* :-) . Cheers, -- Fred [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]