Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

one-to-many

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.79 in modern English

Syllables: one--to--many
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.

adj

Having the property that an element of one set may be assigned by the relationship to several elements in the other set, but that a given element in the second set can have only one member of the first set assigned to it.

adj

From a single source to multiple recipients.

Example Sentences

""Being a genetic mother of" is a one-to-many relation from the set of cats to the set of cats."
"Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications."

Frequently Paired Words

one-to-one many-to-one many-to-many

Synonyms

one-many

Questions

What does one-to-many mean?: Having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.

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