Onto - What does it mean?
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has no English definition.
Upon; on top of.
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, title= (informal) Aware of.
(mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
(mathematics, of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
is likely misspelled.
has no English definition.
As a preposition onto
is upon; on top of.As an adjective onto
is assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.onto
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* on toPreposition
(English prepositions)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.}}
Adjective
(-)- Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto .