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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.
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Aware of.informal
- The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
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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.
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Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.not-comparable
- 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.