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'''Enriched category theory''' is a branch of [[Category Theory|category theory]] in which the hom-sets of a category — the collections of morphisms between objects — are replaced by objects from some other monoidal category. Instead of asking 'how many morphisms are there from A to B?', enriched category theory asks 'what is the *structure* of morphisms from A to B?' — where the answer might be a topological space, a metric space, a poset, or an abelian group.

The simplest example is a category '''enriched over [[Set|sets]]''': this is just an ordinary category. A category enriched over the category of vector spaces is a [[linear category]], where morphism composition is bilinear. A category enriched over the poset of truth values is a preorder. Each choice of enriching category reveals different structural features.

Enriched categories are the natural setting for '''[[Algebraic Effects|algebraic effects]]''' and other computational phenomena where the 'distance' or 'cost' between programs matters. In this reading, the enrichment captures not just whether one program can transform into another, but *how* — with what resources, under what constraints, at what cost.

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