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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"
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Terminology for extremal non-epimorphisms
In Sketches of an Elephant this kind of morphism is called a cover (section A1.3).
In case you don't like that, here are some other possibilities (although I don't know that I actually like any of the …
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Is there a better name for the "Mayer-Vietoris Octahedral axiom" and has it been studied?
In May's paper The additivity of traces in triangulated categories he has the following things to say about this property. (At least, I think it is an equivalent property -- his notation is different …
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What is the name of this categorical construction?
This is the Cauchy completion of $\mathcal{C}$ as an $\mathrm{Ab}$-enriched category.
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"discrete" objects of a $2$-category
I would call those objects "codiscrete" or "co-0-truncated", since "discrete" and "0-truncated" are used for the dual property, e.g. here and here. It's equivalent to saying that $B$ is equivalent to …
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Intuition behind orthogonality in category theory, and origin of name
(Indeed, in this case we have "$C = M\circ E$" as monads in $\rm Prof$ via a distributive law, as shown by Cheng --- this long postdates the terminology, but the underlying intuition was probably there …
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"Pointwise" defintions in category theory
As Peter said in a comment, "objectwise" is quite common and would probably be understood even without quotation marks, although it never hurts to define a term the first time you use it. I expect th …
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Terminology question for poset maps
I think one name for this is a simulation.
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Terminology for a notion of "categories parameterized by another (symmetric monoidal) category"
Zhen is right that you can think of it as a lax monoidal pseudofunctor. In this paper, I called an equivalent structure a "monoidal fibration".
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Terminology generalizing "quasi-isomorphism"
I don't think this is completely standard, so if I were going to use it I would explain it first, but a natural possibility is "$\mathcal{F}$-isomorphism" (-monomorphism, -epimorphism).
Quasi-isomo …
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Terminology: lax vs. oplax colimits
Of course, as Finn pointed out, there is controversy over the choice for natural transformations, but my views on that are clear at the nlab page so I'll just write using that terminology. …
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Terminology: Is there a name for a category with biproducts?
One name that I have seen used is semiadditive category.