Bijective
adj
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Associating to each element of the codomain exactly one element of the domain; establishing a perfect (one-to-one) correspondence between the elements of the domain and the codomain; (formally) both injective and surjective. not-comparable
"1987, James S. Royer, A Connotational Theory of Program Structure, Springer, LNCS 273, page 15, Then, by a straightforward, computable, bijective numerical coding, this idealized FORTRAN determines an EN. (Note: In this FORTRAN example, we could have omitted restrictions on I/O and instead used a computable, bijective, numerical coding for inputs and outputs to get another EN determined by FORTRAN.)"
- 2 Having a component that is (specified to be) a bijective map; that specifies a bijective map. not-comparable
"Proving the conjecture is equivalent to constructing a PCP that reads 2 symbols and accepts iff these symbols satisfy a bijective constraint."
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