A coproduct is a construction in category theory that generalizes the notion of disjoint unions and direct sums. It serves as a way to combine objects from different categories into a single object, representing the most universal way to include these objects while preserving their individual structures. The coproduct has an associated universal property that allows morphisms from each of the original objects to the coproduct in a way that respects the structure of those objects.
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