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'ɒntu:5 senses · 64 ms
Level A1CET-4高考考研Oxford 3000
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prep/ˈɒn.tuː//ˈɑn.tu//ˈɔn.tu/
  1. 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. 2

    Aware of.informal

    • The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
  3. 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.
adj/ˈɒn.tuː//ˈɑn.tu//ˈɔn.tu/
  1. 1

    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.

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