injective

Etymology

This term was introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in his treatise Éléments de mathématique.

adj

  1. (mathematics) of, relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain); inverse-deterministic

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