onto
Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
Example
“My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.”
Other meanings
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.”
Related words
- thereonto
- whereonto
- back onto
- be onto
- be onto something
- come onto
- cotton onto
- crack onto
- get onto
- glom onto
- hang onto
- hang onto your hat
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “onto” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.