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one-to-one

one-to-one adjective: matching each member of one set with exactly one member of another set.

Adjective

one-to-one (comparative more one-to-one, superlative most one-to-one)

  1. Matching each member of one set with exactly one member of another set.
    • There is a one-to-one relationship between days with large cash shortages and his workdays.
  2. (UK) Involving direct communication between two people.
    • a one-to-one discussion
    • a one-to-one teaching session
    Synonyms:
    one-on-one
  3. Injective, being an injection: having the property that no two elements of the domain are mapped to the same image.

Noun

one-to-one (plural one-to-ones)

  1. A personal relationship between two people.
    Synonyms:
    121
  2. A direct match or equivalent.
    • And though [Jesse] Armstrong[…] continues his avoidance of easy one-to-ones, there’s more than a whiff of Elon Musk to Venis […].2025 June 2, Adrian Horton, “Tech-bro satire Mountainhead is an insufferable disappointment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

one-to-one meaning in Hindi and Tagalog

one-to-one in Hindi

one-to-one
एकैकी-आच्छादक ekaikī-ācchādak

one-to-one in Tagalog

matching each member of one set with one member of another set
isa-sa-isa

Synonyms of one-to-one

Forms of one-to-one

Adjective
comparativemore one-to-one
superlativemost one-to-one
Noun
pluralone-to-ones

Questions about one-to-one

What does one-to-one mean?
One-to-one means matching each member of one set with exactly one member of another set.
What is one-to-one in Hindi?
One-to-one in Hindi is एकैकी-आच्छादक (ekaikī-ācchādak). See One-to-one meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is one-to-one?
One-to-one can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near one-to-one in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one-to-one (page history and authors); एकैकी-आच्छादक (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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