nLab bicomplete category

Redirected from "complete and cocomplete category".
Complete categories

Context

Category theory

Limits and colimits

Complete categories

Definition

A category CC is bicomplete if it is both a complete category as well as a cocomplete category, hence if it has all small limits and colimits: that is, if every small diagram

F:DC F: D \to C

where DD is a small category has a limit and a colimit in CC.

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