What are good words for defining multiples?

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Published on 2013-06-14T16:02:44Z Indexed on 2013/07/02 17:15 UTC
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In databases you might take about one-to-many. This means there's one thing that maps to zero or more others.

In this kind of style I'm looking for words that define min/max amounts of things. So far, I have:

        min     max
one      1       1
many     0    infinite
optional 0       1
???      1    infinite

Is there a single word that fits '???' to mean more than one?
Do you have better alternatives for 'optional'?

I'm wondering if there are any conventional names for those concepts?

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