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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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... of 1847-1848 was employed by Young and his associates in completing the church organization, mapping out a scheme of European immigration, and preparing for the removal of the remaining ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... is evidence that colour markings are in some way dependent on nerve distribution. In the disease known as frontal herpes, an eruption occurs which corresponds exactly to the distribution of the ophthalmic division of the fifth cranial nerve, mapping out all its little branches even to the one which goes to the tip of the nose. In a Hindoo suffering from herpes the pigment was destroyed in the arm along the course of the ulnar nerve, with its branches along both sides ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... the principal sites were astronomically determined by Commanders Ahmed Musallam and Nasir Ahmed, of the Egyptian navy. The task of mapping and planning was committed to the two young Staff-lieutenants sent for that purpose. They worked well in the field; and their sketches were carefully executed whilst under my superintendence. But it was different when they returned to Cairo. The maps sent to the little Exposition ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton

... of Jumala, maybe when one planet's under certain conditions only? Yes, that makes sense. Only why wasn't the first Patrol explorer flaming in here caught? And the survey team—we were here for months, cataloguing, mapping, not a ...

— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

... changing, into one of the Martian white people. I found my work, as you will, in this Patenta, for by that name in Mars is called this home of astronomy and physical philosophy. Here, amid telescopes and apparatus of experiment and investigation, I have spent the years, mapping with many others the skies, and above all beating the earth we left, as have many, many, whom you will meet, with magnetic waves, hoping against hope, that some response might be gained, some hint of that connection through ...

— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

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