map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măp
ipa: /mæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: maps
Etymology: Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component. Doublet of mop, nape, and nappe.
Senses: examples: text: a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput
text: He bought a map for the tour of Edinburgh Castle.
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
text: Anna, it is a map.
ref: 2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), via VOA, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2017:
synonyms: plan
chart
glosses: A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
examples: text: a map of the Earth's magnetic field
text: The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
ref: 2005, Craig Steiner, The 8051/8052 Microcontroller, page 9:
text: Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
ref: 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
synonyms: plan
chart
glosses: A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
examples: Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: mapping
function
glosses: A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
examples: text: And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
glosses: The face.
examples: text: I don't want to play this map again!
text: Jack loves playing on this Fortnite map.
text: On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
ref: 2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:
topics: video-games
synonyms: level
stage
qualifier: board games
glosses: An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of associative array.
synonyms: word: associative array
Hyponyms: argument map
concept map
Hénon map
mind map
overworld map
roadmap
texture map
thematic map
topic map
Derived terms: Abel-Jacobi map
all over the map
Arnold's cat map
automap
backmap
battle map
Beatine map
Beatus map
bit map
bit-map
bitmap
blind map
chain map
chaotic map
character map
choropleth map
chromatomap
colormap
colourmap
contour map
coordinate map
cube map
cybermap
dissected map
drop off the map
ecomap
eigenmap
empathy map
exponential map
false map turtle
fate map
field map
flood map
flowmap
Gauss map
geomap
geo-map
Gingerbreadman map
graymap
hash map
heat map
heightmap
hexamap
horseshoe map
hypermap
identification map
image map
inclusion map
isomap
Karnaugh map
karyomap
keymap
knowledge map
Kohonen map
lightmap
linear map
location map
locator map
lovemap
map butterfly
mapful
map game
maphack
mapholder
mapless
maplet
map lichen
maplike
mapmaker
mapmaking
map of Tasmania
map of Tassie
mappability
mappable
mappery
mappist
map pocket
map projection
mapreading
map room
map turtle
map unit
mapvertising
mapwing
mapwise
mapwork
meadow map
micromap
minimap
mismap
mud map
multimap
Ordnance Survey map
paleomap
photomap
physical map
pixelmap
pixmap
Poincaré map
political map
put on the map
quotient map
regular map
relief map
ribbon map
road map
roadmap
self-organizing map
shadow map
shake map
shakemap
site map
skymap
slippy map
sociomap
spatiomap
splat map
star-map
street map
submap
T and O map
taste map
the map is not the territory
tilemap
time-one map
tongue map
topographical map
touch map
trail map
transition map
treasure map
treemap
unmap
weather map
Weingarten map
world map
Related terms: atlas
cartographer
cartography