To pronounce "category", say CAT-eg-ory — 3 syllables, IPA /ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/. Tap play below to hear it in four English accents, or practice it syllable by syllable.
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/ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/
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/kˈætɪɡəɹi/
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"category" has 3 syllables: cat-eg-ory. It rhymes with repository and hoary, if that helps it stick.
noun
“I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.”
“Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.”
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"Category" has 3 syllables: cat · eg · ory.
The IPA transcription of "category" is /ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/.
Category: A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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