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What is the definition of when each input has exactly one output in a relation

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The word you’re looking for is a *function*. Functions can’t have one input associated with more than one output, but multiple inputs *can* produce the same output (so-called “even functions” have this property), and the special functions where each output has exactly one input associated with it are called “one-to-one” functions.
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