EGAVE

onto

About 35.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. preposition Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
    My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
  2. preposition Aware of.
    The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
  3. preposition 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.
  4. adjective Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.
    Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto, as it never takes on values less than or equal to zero.

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