Crossword clues for mapping
mapping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mapping \mapping\ n. (Math.) A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set.
Syn: map, correspondence.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of making maps. 2 (context mathematics English) A function that maps every element of a given set to a unique element of another set; a correspondence. 3 (context biology English) The process of locating genes on a chromosome. 4 (context computing English) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network. vb. (present participle of map English)
WordNet
v. make a map of; show or establish the features of details of; "map the surface of Venus"
explore or survey for the purpose of making a map; "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; "map the genes"
plan, delineate, or arrange in detail; "map one's future" [syn: map out]
depict as if on a map; "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face"
to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) [syn: represent]
n. a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set [syn: mapping, correspondence]
n. a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set [syn: map, correspondence]
(genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome [syn: chromosome mapping]
See map
Wikipedia
Mapping is the creation of maps, a graphic symbolic representation of the significant features of a part of the surface of the Earth.
- Cartography, mapping in general
- Mapping (mathematics), a synonym for mathematical function or for Morphism.
- Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes
- Brain mapping, set of techniques to study the brain
- Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models
- Texture mapping, in computer graphics
- Mind mapping is the drawing of ideas and the relations among them
- Robotic mapping, creation and use of maps by robots
- Spiritual mapping, a practice of some religions
Usage examples of "mapping".
Just mapping audio to the previously translated written forms had been a triumph.
The point-sources were indeed stived as densely as lice on the head of a harijan, but I could find no mappings to the point-exits in the nebula which lay before me, the nebula called the Solid State Entity.
New priority list: secure parts, repair Reene and bring him back, shut down the automatic laser cover, send Lacey and cat home, finish mapping this bloody system, all the while avoiding the owners of this lovely facility, InterGlax, and a handful of persistent bounty hunters.
His problem was the topo and mapping gear, which he alone carried in the Family.
They pictured an all-pervasive, varicoloured grid covering plains and valleys, forests and pastures, mapping the spirit of the land and its alliance with the heavens.
Perhaps Prince Yeddo was mapping new plans for becoming shogun of all Nippon, a warlord whose future would be built upon the foundations of the present militaristic regime.
From the scholarly point of view, however, it is equally orthodox to affirm that no human beings had evolved in those remote times, let alone human beings capable of accurately mapping the landmasses of the Antarctic.
There was a spearlike green plast representing a specific type of mapping, and automorphism, and the thought: Death lies within me grew from the central concept.
Imagination seized on distortions and ran rampant, until quivering flesh balked at mapping the scope of an ordeal driven amok.
I remembered my father, a lined, silent man who had liked to fly often, taking photograph after photograph from his plane for the meticulous work of Mapping and Exploration.
I analysed many songs, attempting to assign 2D and 3D representations to the intervals that occurred in each song, but I was not able to find any rule for assignment that made the occurrence of a spiral-to-loop mapping depend on the musicality of the tune.
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.
The patient is instructed not to move his eyes to look directly at the phosphene patterns that are generated during mapping, as eye movement will skew the results, making it necessary to repeat the stimulation sequence.
It was a long shot, but Boyce was already in his mind mapping out pretrial motion number seventy-five, on the even more daring premise that the traces of French-made hand moisturizing cream in the fingerprints would unfairly bias jurors who felt that an American First Lady should use only American-made beauty products.
She watched, mesmerized, as he ran his hands slowly, sensually, over her legs and pelvis, as if he were mapping her, memorizing every curve.