one-to-many adjective3 •Having the property that the same argument may yield multiple values, but different arguments never yield the same value. •From a single source to multiple recipients.Traditional mass media, both print and broadcast, are forms of one-to-many communications. •Having the property that an element of one set may be assigned by the relationship to several elements in the other set, but that a given element in the second set can have only one member of the first set assigned to it."Being a genetic mother of" is a one-to-many relation from the set of cats to the set of cats.