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Tricategory

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A tricategory is a generalization of a category in the context of higher category theory. While a category consists of objects and morphisms (arrows) between those objects, a tricategory extends this idea to include not just objects and morphisms, but also a second layer of structure called 2-morphisms, and a third layer called 3-morphisms.

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