##  [Inductive Limit](/inductive-limit) 

  ##  [Inductive Limit](https://mathlogic.quantumdictionary.io/inductive-limit-0) 

  

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Definition

The colimit of a directed (often filtered) system, also called a direct or inductive limit, producing an object obtained by coherently adjoining the objects of the system along the connecting morphisms and characterized by a universal mapping property for maps out of the system.