map
/mæp/ verb C2- To represent by means of a map. · This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.· Figure 3 maps the pressure distribution within the human circulatory system.
- To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map. · The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.· The space probe is mapping the Earth's gravitational field.
- To have a direct relationship; to correspond. · This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
- To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with. · Map "volume down" to the F2 key.
- To act as a function on something, taking it to something else. · f maps A to B, mapping every a∈A to f(a)∈B.· Equivalently: f:A→B,a↦f(a)
- To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
He/she/it maps · Past mapped · Past participle mapped · -ing form mapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- map
- He/she/it
- maps
- Past
- mapped
- Past participle
- mapped
- -ing form
- mapping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A cycle map of the county lay on his bedroom table.
After you left I sent down to Stamford’s for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.
“A large-scale map, I presume?”
There was no name on his clothing, and nothing in his pockets save an apple, some string, a shilling map of London, and a photograph.
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