→ or -> may refer to: * one of the arrow symbols, characters of Unicode * one of the

arrow keys Arrow keys or cursor movement keys are keys on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor (computers), cursor in a specified direction. The term "cursor movement key" is distinct from "arrow key" in that th ...

, on a keyboard * →, ->, representing the assignment operator in various programming languages * ->, a pointer operator in C and C++ where a->b is synonymous with (*a).b (except when either -> or * has been overridden in C++). * →, goto in the

APL programming language APL (named after the book ''A Programming Language'') is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent m ...

* →, representing the direction of a chemical reaction in a

chemical equation A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in the form of symbols and chemical formulas. The reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the Product (chemistry), product entities are on the right-hand side ...

* →, representing the set of all

mathematical function In mathematics, a function from a set (mathematics), set to a set assigns to each element of exactly one element of .; the words ''map'', ''mapping'', ''transformation'', ''correspondence'', and ''operator'' are sometimes used synonymously. ...

s that map from one set to another in set theory * →, representing a material implication in logic * →, representing

morphism In mathematics, a morphism is a concept of category theory that generalizes structure-preserving maps such as homomorphism between algebraic structures, functions from a set to another set, and continuous functions between topological spaces. Al ...

in category theory * →, representing a

vector Vector most often refers to: * Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction * Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism Vector may also refer to: Mathematics a ...

in physics and mathematics * the

relative direction In geometry, direction, also known as spatial direction or vector direction, is the common characteristic of all ray (geometry), rays which coincide when translation (geometry), translated to share a common endpoint; equivalently, it is the commo ...

of right or forward * →, a notation of

Conway chained arrow notation Conway chained arrow notation, created by mathematician John Horton Conway, is a means of expressing certain extremely large numbers. It is simply a finite sequence of positive integers separated by rightward arrows, e.g. 2\to3\to4\to5\to6. As wi ...

for very large integers * "Due to" (and other meanings), in medical notation * the button that starts playback of a recording on a media player

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