Name of a groupoid

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Let $S$ be an arbitrary set. Consider the category

  • whose objects are the points of $S$;
  • whose morphisms are the pairs $(a,b) \in S^2$, with starting and ending objects respectively $a$ and $b$;
  • such that, for all $(a,b),(b,c) \in S^2$, $(a,b) \circ (b,c):=(a,c)$.

It is clear that this category is a groupoid.

Question: Does this groupoid have a name in the literature?

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This is called the indiscrete or codiscrete groupoid, by analogy with the indiscrete topology.