one-many

adjective Logic, Mathematics.

(of a relation) having the property that an element may be assigned to several elements but that given an element, only one may be assigned to it.

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1905–10

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—*adj*
	maths, logic (of a relation) holding between more than one ordered pair of elements with the same first member

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