one–manyadj.
/ˌwʌnˈmɛni/, U.S. /ˌwənˈmɛni/ Designating a correspondence or relation in which each member of one set is associated with or related to more than one member of a second set.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] > one-to-one, etc.
one-to-one1873
multivalent1891
one–many1901
one-for-one1908
many–one1910
one-to-many1916
many–many1922
many-to-one1964
many-to-many1981
1901 Mind 10 297 The terms in question form a series which..is obtained by some many–many or one–many relation which each of them has to one or more terms of some independent series.
1910 A. N. Whitehead & B. Russell Principia Mathematica I. ii. 438 Thus many–one relations are the converses of one–many relations.
1945 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Nature i. ii. 71 The Platonic form is not a ‘logical universal’, and the things, in the natural world..to which it stands in a one–many relation are not instances but approximations of it.
1972 Lect. Royal Inst. Philos. 5 77 Berkeley regarded the relation between the self and its ideas as a necessary one–many relation.
1992 Mind 101 152 When Coburn supposes..that the relation is one–many, he takes the supposition to imply that some person a could bear the relation both to some person b and to some person c.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1901