map
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
entomology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
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.
Inflected forms:
form: maps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
pos: noun
examples: a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput
He bought a map for the tour of Edinburgh Castle.
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.
Anna, it is a map.
gloss: A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
pos: noun
examples: a map of the Earth's magnetic field
The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
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.
gloss: A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
pos: noun
examples: Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
pos: noun
gloss: The face.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
examples: 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.
gloss: An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
pos: noun
examples: I don't want to play this map again!
Jack loves playing on this Fortnite map.
On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
Maps are littered with little challenges in my pursuit of explorable shortcuts, treasure chests of gear, and statues that grant me more health.
gloss: Synonym of associative array.
pos: noun
gloss: To represent by means of a map.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.
Figure 3 maps the pressure distribution within the human circulatory system.
gloss: To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.
The space probe is mapping the Earth's gravitational field.
To provide the surveys required for modernisation schemes on British Railways, extensive sections of line in the Home Counties are to be mapped from the air. […] The track will be photographed from 1,500 ft. to provide maps of a scale of about 104 ft. to 1 in.
This equipment is designed to map the neurons of the human brain in three dimensions.
gloss: To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.
gloss: To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Map "volume down" to the F2 key.
gloss: To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: f maps A to B, mapping every a∈A to f(a)∈B.
Equivalently: f:A→B,a↦f(a)
gloss: To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: atlas
cartographer
cartography
Derived words: demap
map onto
map out
remap
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kaavio
lang: Finnish
word: kartta
lang: Swahili
word: ramani
lang: Bulgarian
word: карти́рам
roman: kartíram
lang: Catalan
word: mapar
lang: Catalan
word: cartografiar
lang: Danish
word: kortlægge
lang: Dutch
word: afbeelden
lang: Dutch
word: in kaart brengen
lang: Finnish
word: kartoittaa
lang: French
word: cartographier
lang: German
word: abbilden
lang: German
word: kartografieren
lang: Hungarian
word: feltérképez
lang: Hungarian
word: leképez
lang: Italian
word: mappare
lang: Macedonian
word: картографира
roman: kartografira
lang: Māori
word: whakamahere
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kartlegge
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kartleggja
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kartleggje
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kartlegga
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kartlegge
lang: Occitan
word: mapar
lang: Occitan
word: cartografiar
lang: Portuguese
word: mapear
lang: Slovak
word: zmapovať
lang: Spanish
word: mapear
lang: Spanish
word: cartografiar
lang: Swedish
word: kartlägga