If $\mathcal{D}$ is a locally-small category, then a functor $F\colon\mathcal{C}\rightarrow\mathcal{D}$ has a right-adjoint if and only if for each object $d$ of $D$, the presheaf $$\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{op}}\xrightarrow[c\,\mapsto\, \mathcal{D}(F(c),d) ]{}\mathsf{Set}$$ is representable. * Is there a usual technical term for, given $d$, a _representing object_ of the aforementioned presheaf? Or rather, usual or not, have you ever _encountered_ a specialized term for this, and which do you _recommend_? <sub> Remarks. Whether any specialized term is needed, is debatable of course, and not the question. There are situations where it is useful to have a term for it, to facilitate discussing the issue, in particular in expositions. Saying ``representing object of $F$'' would be nonsensical. Of course, one can just describe it the way I did, but is there a specialized technical term for this representing object? For want of a standard term, and despite the connotations of "law" and similarity to another, usual notation, I always used to call and denote "the" family $\mathrm{Ob}(\mathcal{D})\ni d\mapsto $(a representing object of the relevant presheaf) $\in$ $\mathrm{Ob}(\mathcal{C})$ "the" $\mathrm{Law}(F)$, for "left-adjoint witnesses of $F$", since if a family $\mathrm{Law}(F)$ exists, then $F$ is a left-adjoint, and such a family of objects is something of a certificate for its being a left-adjoint. </sub> * Do you agree that, strictly speaking, it would _not_ be in accordance with the definition of "the" in [the][1] to refer to "the law of $F$"? <sub> After all, each "component" of $\mathrm{Law}(F)$ is determined only up to isomorphism in the category $\mathcal{D}$, and the feature of any two laws being determined up to _unique_ isomorphism seems to be totally lacking. </sub> [1]: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/generalized+the