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Coimage
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Coimage

In mathematics, particularly in algebra, the coimage of a homomorphism

fA → B

is the quotient

coim f = A/ker f

of the domain and kernel. The coimage is canonically isomorphic to the image by the first isomorphism theorem, when that theorem applies.