Cartesian closed category

Etymology
Named after (1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, whose formulation of analytic geometry gave rise to the concept of Cartesian product, which was later generalized to the notion of categorical product.

Noun

 * 1)  A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A &times; B and an exponential object BA.

Synonyms

 * CCC