英和和英

語源

• Deverbal from push out.
• (one who leaves school): Intended to avoid the negative implications of dropout.

名詞

pushout (plural pushouts)

1. (category theory) The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
2. A person who is expelled from school or who drops out because of a lack of support.
   • 1996, Sharon Goodman, David Graddol, Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities, page 221:

     For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon.

上位語

• colimit

下位語

• coequalizer

参考

• pullback

アナグラム

• outpush

名詞

push out (plural push outs)

1. (billiards) In nine ball pool, an optional shot after a legal break shot where a player is allowed to hit any ball first, or not any, as well as not hit a rail, and the opponent can choose who shoots the next shot.

アナグラム

• outpush