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Condense vs Onto - What's the difference?

condense | onto |

As adjectives the difference between condense and onto

is that condense is condensed; compact; dense while onto is assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.

As a verb condense

is to decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

As a preposition onto is

upon; on top of.

condense

English

Alternative forms

* condence

Verb

  • To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
    • An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
    Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
  • To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  • * Milton
    • In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
  • * Motley
    • The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
  • (chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.

    • Synonyms

    * (to decrease size or volume) minify

    Antonyms

    * extend * magnify

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
    • The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
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    onto

    English

    Alternative forms

    * on to

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Upon; on top of.
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    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • (informal) Aware of.
  • (mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (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 .

    Synonyms

    * (mathematics) surjective

    See also

    * (mathematics) one-to-one, injective, bijective

    Anagrams

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