Definition of

Codomain

Codomain

The set of all possible output values of a function.

(The set of actual output values is called the range.)

In other words, the set of values that the output values lie in.

Example: for the square of the natural numbers N = {1, 2, 3, ...}:

• the domain (input values) is N
• the codomain (possible output values) is N
• the range (actual output values) is {1, 2, 4, 9, 16, ...}