map
Translingual
Symbol
map
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Worldmap_LandAndPolitical.jpg/220px-Worldmap_LandAndPolitical.jpg)
Etymology
Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: măp, IPA(key): /mæp/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -æp
Noun
map (plural maps)
- A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
- 2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106:
- 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.
- 2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], via VOA, archived from the original on 25 September 2017:
- Anna, it is a map.
- A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
- 2005, Craig Steiner, The 8051/8052 Microcontroller, page 9:
- The 256 bytes of internal RAM are subdivided as shown in the memory map above.
- 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist[3], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 April 2017, page 171:
- 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.
- (mathematics) A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
- (UK, dated) The 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.
- (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
- 2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica[4]:
- On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
- (computing) Synonym of associative array.
Usage notes
For the most part, map and function are synonyms in mathematics, and are frequently used interchangeably; however, certain branches of mathematics sometimes use map in a specialised sense to mean a function that preserves some important property in that branch of mathematics, i.e. a morphism. For instance, in topology, map may specifically mean a continuous function, and in linear algebra it may specifically mean a linear transformation.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- Abel-Jacobi map
- all over the map
- Arnold's cat map
- automap
- backmap
- battle map
- bit-map
- bit map
- bitmap
- blind map
- chain map
- character map
- choropleth map
- chromatomap
- colormap
- colourmap
- contour map
- coordinate map
- cube map
- cybermap
- dissected map
- ecomap
- eigenmap
- empathy map
- exponential map
- false map turtle
- fate map
- field map
- flood map
- flowmap
- Gauss map
- geo-map
- geomap
- Gingerbreadman map
- graymap
- hash map
- heat map
- heightmap
- hexamap
- horseshoe map
- hypermap
- identification map
- image map
- inclusion map
- isomap
- Karnaugh map
- karyomap
- keymap
- knowledge map
- Kohonen map
- lightmap
- linear map
- locator map
- lovemap
- map butterfly
- mapful
- maphack
- mapholder
- mapless
- maplet
- map lichen
- maplike
- mapmaker
- mapmaking
- map of Tasmania
- map of Tassie
- mappability
- mappable
- mappery
- mappist
- map pocket
- map projection
- mapreading
- map room
- map unit
- mapvertising
- mapwing
- mapwise
- mapwork
- meadow map
- micromap
- minimap
- mismap
- mud map
- multimap
- Ordnance Survey map
- paleomap
- photomap
- physical map
- pixelmap
- pixmap
- Poincaré map
- political map
- put on the map
- quotient map
- regular map
- relief map
- ribbon map
- roadmap
- road map
- self-organizing map
- shake map
- shakemap
- site map
- skymap
- slippy map
- sociomap
- spatiomap
- splat map
- star-map
- star-map
- street map
- submap
- T and O map
- taste map
- the map is not the territory
- tilemap
- tongue map
- topographical map
- touch map
- trail map
- transition map
- treasure map
- treemap
- unmap
- weather map
- Weingarten map
- world map
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Verb
map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)
- (transitive) To represent by means of a map.
- This large atlas maps the whole world in very great detail.
- Figure 3 maps the pressure distribution within the human circulatory system.
- (transitive) To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
- The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.
- The space probe is mapping the Earth's gravitational field.
- This equipment is designed to map the neurons of the human brain in three dimensions.
- (intransitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
- This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 8:
- Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.
- (transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
- Map "volume down" to the F2 key. (computing)
- (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
- maps to , mapping every to .
- (transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Swedish: mappa
Translations
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References
- “map”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology
Cognate with Breton mab, Old Irish macc.
Noun
map m (plural mebyow)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.
Pronunciation
Noun
map f (plural mappen, diminutive mapje n)
Descendants
- → Indonesian: map
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch map (“folder”), from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.
Pronunciation
Noun
map (first-person possessive mapku, second-person possessive mapmu, third-person possessive mapnya)
- folder: An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
- Synonym: folder
Further reading
- “map” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Old Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.
Noun
map m (plural mepion)
Descendants
Further reading
- Falileyev, Alexander (2000) Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; 18), Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 109
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
map f
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
map m (genitive singular map, plural mapaichean)
- Alternative form of mapa
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
map | mhap |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Welsh
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
map m (plural mapiau)
Derived terms
- mapio (“to map”)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
map | fap | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “map”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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