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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  mapping 
 
  {function} 
 
 




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