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one-to-many

one-to-many adjective: having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.

one-to-many: having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never...
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Adjective

one-to-many (not comparable)

  1. Having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.
  2. 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. From a single source to multiple recipients.
    • Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications.

Synonyms of one-to-many

Questions about one-to-many

What does one-to-many mean?
One-to-many means having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.
What part of speech is one-to-many?
One-to-many is an adjective.

Words near one-to-many in the dictionary

  1. one-timed
  2. one-timer
  3. one-timers
  4. one-times
  5. one-timing
  6. one-to-many
  7. one-to-one
  8. one-to-ones
  9. one-touch
  10. one-track
  11. one-track mind

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