Pronunciations (4)
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/mæp/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- General-American
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/map/
Pronunciation notes
- British
- Northern-England
- Scotland
- Southern
- Standard
- Wales
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/mɛp/
Pronunciation notes
- New-Zealand
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mæp
Noun
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
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We checked the route on the map.
a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput
He bought a map for the tour of Edinburgh Castle.
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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.
Anna, it is a map.
A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
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a map of the Earth's magnetic field
The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
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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.
A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
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Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
The face.
Usage- UK usage
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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.
An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
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I don't want to play this map again!
Jack loves playing on this Fortnite map.
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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.
Maps are littered with little challenges in my pursuit of explorable shortcuts, treasure chests of gear, and statues that grant me more health.
Synonym of associative array.
Verb
To represent by means of a map.
Usage- Transitive
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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.
Usage- Transitive
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The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.
The space probe is mapping the Earth's gravitational field.
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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.
To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
Usage- Intransitive
- followed by a "to" phrase
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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.
To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
Usage- Transitive
- followed by a "to" phrase
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Map "volume down" to the F2 key.
To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
Usage- Transitive
- followed by a "to" phrase
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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.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
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(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
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Verb
make a map of; show or establish the features of details of
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map the surface of Venus
explore or survey for the purpose of making a map
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We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist
locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences
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map the genes
plan, delineate, or arrange in detail
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map one's future
depict as if on a map
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sorrow was mapped on the mother's face
to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)
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