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many-one
[ men-ee-wuhn; usually read as men-ee-tuh-wuhn ]
/ ˈmɛn iˈwʌn; usually read as ˈmɛn i təˈwʌn /
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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.
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Origin of many-one
First recorded in 1905–10
Words nearby many-one
man-year,
manyfold,
Many hands make light work,
many happy returns,
many is the,
many-one,
manyplies,
many-sided,
many-tailed bandage,
many-valued,
many-valued logic Dictionary.com Unabridged
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How to use many-one in a sentence
Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
British Dictionary definitions for many-one
adjective
maths logic (of a function) associating a single element of a range with more than one member of the domain
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