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surjective

/sərˈdʒɛktɪv/ adjective · British & US
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What does surjective mean?

adjective

Having a surjection; being onto. A function is surjective if every element in the codomain is the image of at least one element in the domain.

Example

"The function f(x) = 2x is surjective from the set of real numbers to the set of even numbers."

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