An intersection is a meet of subsets or (more generally) subobjects.
The dual notion is that of union/join.
This includes the traditional set-theoretic intersection of subsets of some ambient set, as well as intersections of completely arbitrary sets (which are subsets of the universe) in material set theory.
In a finitely complete category, the intersection of two monomorphisms and can be computed by a pullback of the cospan .
The nullary intersection of the subsets of is itself. A binary intersection is the intersection of two sets, and a finitary intersection is the intersection of finitely many sets. Finitary intersections may be built out of binary and nullary intersections.
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