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Name for this algebraic structure?

I've found myself looking at a structure $\mathbb{M}$ whose important properties are: $\mathbb{M}$ is a discretely ordered additive monoid. $\mathbb{M}$ has a least element, and this least element is ...
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Regarding a new algebraic structure

By "left semigroup-joined-semigroup" I mean an algebraic structures $(S,\cdot,*)$ such that both $\cdot,*$ are associative, and the following property holds (see this ) $$ x*(y\cdot z)=x*y*z\;\; ; \;...
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$fgf = f$, $gfg = g$, $fg$ not necessarily identity, what is this called?

A very simple question, I just totally forgot how it was called, and Google is not helping. There's a pair of functions $f:X\to Y$, $g:Y\to X$. $fgf = f$, $gfg = g$, but $fg$ and $gf$ don't need to ...
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