Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mapping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Map \Map\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mapping
n 1: a function such that for every element of one set there is a
unique element of another set [syn: {map}, {correspondence}]
2: (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome
[syn: {chromosome mapping}]
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