many-one

[men-ee-wuhn; usually read as men-ee-tuh-wuhn]

adjective Logic, Mathematics.

(of a relation) having the property that each element is assigned to one element only but that many elements may be assigned to the same element.

Origin of many-one

First recorded in 1905–10

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

British Dictionary definitions for many-one

many-one

adjective

maths logic (of a function) associating a single element of a range with more than one member of the domain

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012