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See also: MAP and mập

Translingual

Symbol

map

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Austronesian languages.

English

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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. Doublet of mop, nape, and nappe.

Pronunciation

Noun

map (plural maps)

  2. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
    Synonyms: plan, chart
    a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput
    He bought a map for the tour of Edinburgh Castle.
    • 2012 March–April, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎, 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)‎, via VOA, archived from the original on 25 September 2017:
      Anna, it is a map.
  3. A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
    Synonyms: plan, chart
    a map of the Earth's magnetic field
    • 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, 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.
  4. (mathematics) A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
    Synonyms: mapping, function
    Let be a map from to
  5. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
  6. (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.
  7. (board games, video games) An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
    Synonyms: level, stage
    I don't want to play this map again!
    Jack loves playing on this Fortnite map.
    • 2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica‎:
      On top of that, each of Evolve's maps are dim, open arenas with little to interact with besides the occasional hostile organism.
  8. (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

Descendants

  • → Irish: mapa

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
    • 1956 August, “Mapping Railways from the Air”, in Railway Magazine, page 499:
      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. (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, →DOI, page 8:
      Significantly, the aural-oral data does not map closely to the visual linguistic landscape at NIE.
  4. (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)
  5. (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
    maps to , mapping every to .
    Equivalently:
  6. (transitive, computing) To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

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Translations to be checked

References

  • “map”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton mab, Old Irish macc.

Noun

map m (plural mebyow)

  1. son
  2. boy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.

Pronunciation

Noun

map f (plural mappen, diminutive mapje n)

  1. folder
  2. (computing) directory, folder

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: map

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch map, from German Mappe, from Latin mappa.

Pronunciation

Noun

map (plural map-map)

  1. folder (an organizer that papers are kept in)
    Synonym: folder

Further reading

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Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mab, from Proto-Celtic *makʷos.

Noun

map m (plural mepion)

  1. son

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

  1. genitive plural of mapa

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

map m (genitive singular map, plural mapaichean)

  1. alternative form of mapa (“map”)

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English map.

Pronunciation

Noun

map m (plural mapiau)

  1. map
    Synonym: daearlun

Derived terms

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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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