injective
/ɪnˈdʒɛktɪv/
adjective
- Relating to or involving injection.
- The injective device must be kept sterile.
- The injective method delivers the medicine directly into the bloodstream.
- Doctors studied the injective properties of the new drug.
- In mathematics, describing a function where each input has a unique output (no two inputs give the same output).
- The teacher explained that an injective function is also called one-to-one.
- To prove the function is injective, we show that if f(a) equals f(b), then a must equal b.
- A function that is injective never maps two different inputs to the same output.
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