nLab weak colimit

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A weak colimit for a diagram in a category is a cocone over that diagram which satisfies the existence property of a colimit but not necessarily the uniqueness. The dual concept is a weak limit, see there for more.

For example, a weakly initial object in a category, CC, is such that there is at least one arrow from it to any object in CC.

References

Weak adjoint functors along with weak colimits were defined in:

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