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many-to-many

many-to-many adjective: having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to any element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can also be assigned more than one member of the second set.

many-to-many: having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to any...
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Adjective

many-to-many (not comparable)

  1. Having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to any element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can also be assigned more than one member of the second set.
    • "Is a fellow citizen with" is a many-to-many relationship on the set of people (from the set of people to the set of people).
  2. From many sources to many recipients.
    • The normal state of human affairs is many-to-many communications, each source going out to many recipients, but each recipient also having multiple sources.

Synonyms of many-to-many

Questions about many-to-many

What does many-to-many mean?
Many-to-many means having the property that many elements of one set may be assigned by the relationship to any element in the other set, and that a given element in the first set can also be assigned more than one member of the second set.
What part of speech is many-to-many?
Many-to-many is an adjective.

Words near many-to-many in the dictionary

  1. many-sidedness
  2. many-sorted logic
  3. many-sorted logics
  4. many-splendored
  5. many-stemmed
  6. many-to-many
  7. many-to-one
  8. many-tongued
  9. many-valued logic
  10. many-worlds interpretation
  11. manya

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