onto

prep
/ˈɒn.tuː/UK/ˈɑn.tu/

Etymology

From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).

  1. borrowed from तो
  2. formed as onto — “on + to

Definitions

  1. Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).

    • My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
    • A new drug has just come onto the market.
  2. Aware of.

    • The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
  3. 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. + 1 more definition
    1. Attaining each of the values in its codomain

      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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for onto. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA