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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

one-to-many en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a function) Having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.
  2. (not-comparable, of a relationship between two sets) Having the property that an element of one set may be assigned by the relationship to several elements in the other set, but that a given element in the second set can have only one member of the first set assigned to it.
    • "Being a genetic mother of" is a one-to-many relation from the set of cats to the set of cats.
  3. (not-comparable) From a single source to multiple recipients.
    • Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications.

Coordinates

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

Synonyms

one-many