Complete Definition of "onto"

English
Preposition
onto

  1. upon, on top of

#* My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.

  1. informal aware of

#* The thought-police were onto my plans of World domination.

  1. mathematics being an onto function with a codomain of (see below)

#* The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.

Adjective
onto

  1. mathematics assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain (said of a function)

#* Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto.

Synonyms
mathematics surjective

Derived terms
mathematics one-to-one and onto

See also
mathematics one-to-one, injective, bijective

Translations
Swedish: surjektiv

Category:English prepositions

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