Name of mapping from multiset to underlying set

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I'd like advice on the most appropriate term for the operation of mapping from a multiset to its underlying set.

In the literature accessible to me in half a day's worth of hunting online, I can find five ways of referring to the underlying set of a multiset (i.e. the multiset's content if the multiplicity of all of its members were set to 1):

  1. Underlying set
  2. Support
  3. Carrier
  4. Root
  5. Full multisubset

and I can find four terms used for the operation on a multiset of finding the underlying set (reducing all the multiplicities to 1):

  1. Unique
  2. Duplicate elimination
  3. Root
  4. Distinct

Is there a preferred term for this operation?