1. : to a position on. We climbed onto the roof. Turn left onto Fifth Avenue. 2. : in or into a state of awareness about. put me onto your methods. was onto something that should have been pursued further Bosley Crowther. 3. used as a function word to indicate a set each element of which is the image of at least one element of another set. More @Wikipedia
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