Biproduct
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This article is about biproducts in mathematics. For an incidental product from a process, see By-product.
In category theory and its applications to mathematics, a biproduct of a finite collection of objects, in a category with zero objects, is both a product and a coproduct. In a preadditive category the notions of product and coproduct coincide for finite collections of objects.[1] The biproduct is a generalization of finite direct sums of modules.