Ontop vs Onto - What's the difference?
ontop | onto |
atop.
* 1980 , O. A. Bushnell, Ka'A'Awa: A Novel About Hawaii in the 1850s ,
* 2005 , Red Jordan Arobateau, Fisherpeople. page 97
* 2006 , Dan Bomkamp, Thanks Thunderfoot , page 152
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.
As a preposition ontop
is .As an adjective onto is
oily, greasy.As a noun onto is
grease.ontop
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)page 85
- "[...] he wen' t'row da buggah right ovah da cleef too, ontop all da res'."
- Senor Poochie at his feet, reclining like a Queen; and Nino eyeing them from ontop the table, her paws resting on an empty plate.
- We pulled over to the shore, dragged the boat up ontop the sandbar, stretched our legs and ate some sandwiches.
onto
English
Alternative forms
* 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 .