map — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

   TraduçãoUma representação visual de uma área real ou imaginária, mostrando as posições relativas de lugares e outros elementos.

   Sinônimos

   planchart

   Exemplos

   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.

2. A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.

   Sinônimos

   planchart

   Exemplos

   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.

3. A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).

   Sinônimos

   mappingfunction

   Exemplos

   Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ

4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.

5. The face.

   Uso

   • uso britânico
   • antiquado

   Exemplos

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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.

6. An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

   Sinônimos

   levelstage

   Exemplos

   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.

7. Synonym of associative array.

Verbo

1. To represent by means of a map.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Exemplos

   This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.

   Figure 3 maps the pressure distribution within the human circulatory system.

2. To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Exemplos

   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.

3. To have a direct relationship; to correspond.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • followed by a "to" phrase

   Exemplos

   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.

4. To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.

   Uso

   • transitivo
   • followed by a "to" phrase

   Exemplos

   Map "volume down" to the F2 key.

5. To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.

   Uso

   • transitivo
   • followed by a "to" phrase

   Exemplos

   f maps A to B, mapping every a∈A to f(a)∈B.

   Equivalently: f:A→B,a↦f(a)

6. To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.

   Uso

   • transitivo

Substantivo

1. a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

   Termos mais gerais

   representation

2. (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)

   Sinônimos

   functionmathematical functionsingle-valued functionmapping

   Termos mais gerais

   mathematical relation

Verbo

1. make a map of; show or establish the features of details of

   Termos mais gerais

   representinterpret

   Exemplos

   map the surface of Venus

2. explore or survey for the purpose of making a map

   Termos mais gerais

   explore

   Exemplos

   We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist

3. locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences

   Termos mais gerais

   situatelocate

   Exemplos

   map the genes

4. plan, delineate, or arrange in detail

   Sinônimos

   map out

   Termos mais gerais

   planprojectcontrivedesign

   Exemplos

   map one's future

5. depict as if on a map

   Termos mais gerais

   picturedepictrendershow

   Exemplos

   sorrow was mapped on the mother's face

6. to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)

   Sinônimos

   represent

   Termos mais gerais

   permutecommutetranspose