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What is the name for an endomorphism $f$ of a category such that $f\circ f=1$?

Note that I work with category $\mathbf{Set}$.

porton
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A mapping $f:X\to X$, for a set $X$, which satisfy $f\circ f=1$ is called involution.

janmarqz
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