one-to-many

adjective

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

“Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications.”

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Meanings

adjectiveone-to-many (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsHaving the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value.
  2. not comparablehuman sciencesHaving 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.

    "Being a genetic mother of" is a one-to-many relation from the set of cats to the set of cats.

  3. not comparableFrom a single source to multiple recipients.

    Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications.

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