An object in an abelian category is said to be semisimple if it is a coproduct (direct sum) of simple objects.
A semisimple object is isotypic if it is a direct sum of isomorphic simple objects (the isomorphism class of a simple object is called its type).
Examples include semisimple left -modules where is a ring.
Sometimes this notion is considered in a bit more general setup than abelian (where it is most often used); sometimes with subtle variants. For Lie algebras, it is a bit different by convention: a Lie algebra is a semisimple Lie algebra if it is a direct sum of nonabelian simple Lie algebras; though a 1-dimensional abelian Lie algebra is simple in the categorical (and in common) sense.