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Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.

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Also called surjection.

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How to use onto function in a sentence

For his part, Bratton is disappointed but not surprised that the same narrative is already being mapped onto Fry and Spencer.
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So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.
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I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
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Gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.
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Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?
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To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.
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Little girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.
Children's Ways|James Sully
I put down my haid, and was just kinda dragged up the aisle and onto the platform.
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This is hardly a function—parties even in the big political country-houses are more or less informal.
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His untidy hair was rumpled, as if someone had been hanging onto it while in the process of giving him the shiner.
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