 Isomorphism of categories

An isomorphism of categories is a functor with a strictly inverse functor. It is equivalently bijective on objects and on each hom-set. An equivalence of categories only requires inverse composites up to invertible natural transformations. For example, the category of partial functions and the category of pointed sets are equivalent but their actual object collections prevent an isomorphism: the former has one zero object, the empty set, while the latter has distinct singleton pointed set objects that are all zero objects.