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Also known as epic morphism, epi, epic

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Within Vinony's link graph, epimorphism is referenced by 193 other articles, and connects out to strict 2-category, ring and surjective function.

Vinony files it under Algebraic properties of elements and Morphisms.

Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.

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In category theory, an epimorphism is a morphism f : X → Y that is right-cancellative in the sense that, for all objects Z and all morphisms , g_1 \circ f = g_2 \circ f \implies g_1 = g_2.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “epimorphism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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