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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, the idea of a <b>free object</b> is one of the basic concepts of <a href="page.php?w=abstract_algebra">abstract algebra</a>. Informally, a free object over a <a href="page.php?w=Set_%28mathematics%29">set</a> A can be thought of as being a "generic" <a href="page.php?w=algebraic_structure">algebraic structure</a> over A: the only equations that hold between elements of the free object are those that follow from the defining axioms of the algebraic structure. Examples include <a href="page.php?w=free_monoid">free monoid</a>s,</p><p>
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