Definition of "map"

map

/mæp/

noun
plural maps
1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
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  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.
  2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106
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  2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, via VOA, archived from the original on 25 September 2017:Anna, it is a map.
2. A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
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  The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
  2005, Craig Steiner, The 8051/8052 Microcontroller, page 9
  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.
  2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171
3. (mathematics) A function.
4. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
5. (UK, dated) The face.
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  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.
  1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X
6. (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
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  On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
  2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica‎
7. (computing) Synonym of associative array.
verb
third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped
1. (transitive) To represent by means of a map.
2. (transitive) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
3. (intransitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
  Quotations
  Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.
  2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, page 8
4. (transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
5. (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
6. (transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.

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