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noun

mapping n. (Math.) A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set. Same as map (4).

Synonyms: map, correspondence.

verb

Map v. t. (past & past part. mapped; pres. part. mapping)

To represent by a map; often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business. "I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly."

(Mathematics) To create a mapping between two sets; see map (4), n.. Also, to create any list of corresponding elements of two sets of things; as, to map the symbols of an ancient language into a modern phonetic alphabet.

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Etymology of 'Mapping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mapping" Quotes from Famous Books

... of a parent; and, conceiving it not to be susceptible of further improvement, he endeavoured to secure its perpetual duration." The author, after pointing out that this was done at the very time when a new hemisphere was in course of exploration, when the telescope was mapping for mankind the heavens, when the Baconian philosophy was about to convert discovery and experiment into instruments of science, printing was carrying knowledge and literature into the heart of society, and the fine arts were receiving one of their most remarkable developments, proceeds: ...

— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman

... had remained rooted to the spot, his eyes shining thoughtfully under his dark brows, and his hand slightly raised, as if piercing into the future, and mapping out its airy realm, ...

— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... volcano. "You can have no idea what an obsession it is with him. There isn't a square foot of its steaming, treacherous surface that he hasn't been over, mapping new fissures, poking into old lava-beds, delving into the ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... For journeying in the Park, Lockley had the advantage that as part of the preparation for making a new map, he'd familiarized himself with all mapping done to date. He knew very nearly where he was. He knew within a close margin just where the terror beam stretched. He'd smashed his watch, which during sunshine substituted admirably for a compass, but he could maintain a reasonably straight line toward that part of the Park's border ...

— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... overlooked an object like this though its planetary nature had manifestly escaped detection. It was just perceptible to the naked eye, shining like a star of the sixth magnitude, and ought to have been distinguished by those who had reviewed the heavens with the purpose of determining and mapping the positions of the stars. Reference was, therefore, made to the chief catalogues, when it was found at once that the planet had been unquestionably observed by Tobias Mayer, Le Monnier, Bradley, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various

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