equality (definitional, propositional, computational, judgemental, extensional, intensional, decidable)
isomorphism, weak equivalence, homotopy equivalence, weak homotopy equivalence, equivalence in an (∞,1)-category
Examples.
Often, by a natural equivalence is meant specifically an equivalence in a 2-category of 2-functors.
But more generally it is an equivalence between any kind of functors in higher category theory:
In 1-category theory it is a natural isomorphism.
In (∞,1)-category theory a natural equivalence is an equivalence in an (∞,1)-category in an (∞,1)-category of (∞,1)-functors.
The components of a natural equivalence are equivalences between the objects in the codomain of the functors. This is what the term “natural equivalence” refers to: its a collection of equivalences between objects which are compatible (“natural”) with the morphisms between these objects, and higher morphisms between those.
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