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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

many-to-one en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a relationship between two sets) Having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to one element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can be assigned by only one member of the second set.
  2. (not-comparable) From many sources to a single recipient.
    • Traditional management structure consisted of a hierarchical tree of many-to-one communications (from subordinate to manager), with each manager often significantly filtering what he passed on to his manager.

Coordinates

one-to-one · many-to-many · one-to-many

Synonyms

many-one