English-German translations for onto

• auf
  Wie bewegt man junge Leute dazu, aufs Land zu ziehen? How can you encourage young people onto the land?
  Wir bringen Europa wieder zurück auf die internationale Ebene. We are bringing Europe back onto the international stage.
  Wir haben Arbeit genug, die Vorschläge liegen auf dem Tisch. We have enough work to do to get proposals onto the table.
• surjektiv

Definition of onto

• Upon; on top of
• Aware of
• Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below
• Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain

Examples

• My cat just jumped onto the keyboard
• The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination
• The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers
• Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto.

Related words

• paleontology
• ontology
• contort
• contortion
• contortionist
• contour
• contours
• palaeontologist
• promontory