one-to-one

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English

Noun

one-to-one (plural one-to-ones)

  1. A personal relationship, especially a sexual one, between two people.
  2. (mathematics) injection (a mapping which takes no two points in the preimage to the same point in the image) or a bijection.

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Adjective

one-to-one (comparative more one-to-one, superlative most one-to-one)

  1. Matching each member of one set with a member of another set.
    There is a one-to-one relationship between days with large cash shortages and his workdays.
  2. (chiefly UK) Involving direct communication between two people. Used especially to refer to situations in which one person is teaching one other person.
  3. (mathematics) Bijective or injective.

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