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one-to-one

adjective more one-to-one · most one-to-one

  1. Matching each member of one set with exactly one member of another set. There is a one-to-one relationship between days with large cash shortages and his workdays.
  2. UK Involving direct communication between two people. a one-to-one discussion

    Similar: one-on-one

  3. of a function Injective, being an injection: having the property that no two elements of the domain are mapped to the same image.

noun one-to-ones

  1. A personal relationship between two people.

    Similar: 121

  2. A direct match or equivalent. And though [Jesse] Armstrong[…] continues his avoidance of easy one-to-ones, there’s more than a whiff of Elon Musk to Venis […].

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adj matching each member of one set with one member of another set

Españolbiunívoco, uno a uno, biyectivo
中文一對一 /一对一 yīduìyī
Portuguêsbijetor
Françaisbiunivoque
Italianobiiettivo
Русскийоди́н к одному odín k odnomu

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@misc{one_to_one_2026,
  title = {one-to-one},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/one-to-one},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}