onto
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[edit] English
[edit] Preposition
onto
- upon, on top of
- My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
- (informal) aware of
- The thought-police were onto my plans of World domination.
- (mathematics) being an onto function with a codomain of (see below)
- The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.
[edit] Adjective
onto (not comparable)
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- (mathematics, of a function) assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain
- Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto.
[edit] Synonyms
- (mathematics) surjective
[edit] Derived terms
- (mathematics) one-to-one and onto
[edit] See also
- (mathematics) one-to-one, injective, bijective