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Map Definition

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Map (disambiguation) A map of the world.

Etymology

Shortening of Middle English mapemounde 'world map', Old French mapemonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundi, compound of Latin mappa 'napkin, cloth' and mundus 'world', mappa borrowed from Phoenician (compare Talmudic Hebrew maffa, contraction of menafa 'fluttering banner'). More at mundane.

Pronunciation

Noun

map (plural maps)

  1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
  2. (mathematics) A function.
    The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.
  3. (topology) A continuous function.
  4. A diagram of components of an item.
  5. The butterfly Araschnia levana.
  6. (UK, old-fashioned) Someone's face.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
      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.

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Verb

map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)

  1. To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
  2. To inform someone of a particular idea.
  3. (mathematics, transitive) To act as a function on.
    f maps A to B, mapping to .
  4. (topology, transitive) To act as a continuous function on.
    The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always mappings.

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Translations

to create a visual representation of a territory
to inform someone of a particular idea
  • Slovak: okresliť, opísať
to act as a function on

Anagrams

Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton mab, Irish and Scottish mac

Noun

map m. (pl. mebyow)

  1. son
  2. boy

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

map f. (plural mappen, diminutive mapje, diminutive plural mapjes)

  1. folder
  2. (computing) directory, folder

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

map m., pl. mapaichean

  1. map (visual representation of an area)

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