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many-to-one

many-to-one adjective: 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.

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

many-to-one (not comparable)

  1. 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. 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.

Synonyms of many-to-one

Questions about many-to-one

What does many-to-one mean?
Many-to-one means 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.
What part of speech is many-to-one?
Many-to-one is an adjective.

Words near many-to-one in the dictionary

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

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