injective
English
An injective mapping
Etymology
This term was introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki in his treatise Éléments de mathématique.
Pronunciation
Adjective
injective (not comparable)
- (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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- injective cogenerator
- injective dimension
- injective function
- injective hull
- injective map
- injective module
- injective object
- injective patch
- injective sheaf