Bijection

/baɪˈdʒɛkʃən/ noun

In mathematics, a function that pairs each element from one set with exactly one unique element from another set, with no elements left unpaired.

From bi- (two) combined with injection (from Latin iacere, to throw), coined in mid-20th-century mathematics to describe one-to-one and onto functions.

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