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MAP

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Irregular inflected forms: mapped    , mapping   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("map" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "map"):

chart (a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea)

choropleth map (a map that uses graded differences in shading or color or the placing of symbols inside defined areas on the map in order to indicate the average values of some property or quantity in those areas)

contour map; relief map (a map having contour lines through points of equal elevation)

plat (a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.))

road map (a map showing roads (for automobile travel))

sketch map (a map drawn from observation (rather than from exact measurements) and representing the main features of an area)

weather chart; weather map ((meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region)

Derivation:

map (explore or survey for the purpose of making a map)

map (make a map of; show or establish the features of details of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)

Synonyms:

function; map; mapping; mathematical function; single-valued function

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("map" is a kind of...):

mathematical relation (a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality))

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "map"):

exponential; exponential function (a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent)

threshold function (a function that takes the value 1 if a specified function of the arguments exceeds a given threshold and 0 otherwise)

circular function; trigonometric function (function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle)

operator ((mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation)

isometry (a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points)

transformation ((mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system)

metric; metric function (a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them)

Kronecker delta (a function of two variables i and j that equals 1 when i=j and equals 0 otherwise)

inverse function (a function obtained by expressing the dependent variable of one function as the independent variable of another; f and g are inverse functions if f(x)=y and g(y)=x)

expansion (a function expressed as a sum or product of terms)

multinomial; polynomial (a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms)

Derivation:

map (to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)

Synonyms:

map; represent

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "map" is one way to...):

commute; permute; transpose (change the order or arrangement of)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

map; mapping ((mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Explore or survey for the purpose of making a map

Example:

We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "map" is one way to...):

explore (travel to or penetrate into)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

map (a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a map of; show or establish the features of details of

Example:

map the surface of Venus

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "map" is one way to...):

interpret; represent (create an image or likeness of)

Verb group:

map (depict as if on a map)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "map"):

chart (make a chart of)

plat; plot (make a plat of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

map (a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it))

mapper (a clerk who marks data on a chart)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Depict as if on a map

Example:

sorrow was mapped on the mother's face

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "map" is one way to...):

depict; picture; render; show (show in, or as in, a picture)

Verb group:

map (make a map of; show or establish the features of details of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Plan, delineate, or arrange in detail

Example:

map one's future

Synonyms:

map; map out

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "map" is one way to...):

contrive; design; plan; project (make or work out a plan for; devise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he map his major works over a short period of time?

Sense 6

Meaning:

Locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences

Example:

map the genes

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "map" is one way to...):

locate; situate (determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mapping ((genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Inhibition of phospholipase C, map kinases, or NF-kB with a variety of pharmacological inhibitors all blocked the activation of cellular proliferation by cadmium.

(Cadmium Induction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Oxo lies near the 0 degree meridian that defines the edge of many Ceres maps, making this small feature easy to overlook.

(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)

One of 47 numbered regions within a map of the cerebral cortex.

(Brodmann's Area, NCI Thesaurus)

Members of the Alpha-Chemokines are referred to also as the 4q chemokine family because the genes encoding members of this family map to human chromosome 4q12-21.

(Alpha Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)

The pathway downstream of TRAFs activates the transcription factor NF-kappaB through a kinase pathway involving map kinases, NIK (NF-kappaB inducing kinase) and I-kappa B kinases.

(CD40L Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A molecular genetic technique that combines chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) with massively parallel DNA sequencing to map the binding sites of DNA-associated proteins in a sample of cells.

(ChIP-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)

Because of that, scientists have looked for other ways to map the galaxy.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You see it marked here in the map.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, gentlemen, continued the captain, I don't know who has this map; but I make it a point, it shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Jaracaca Swamp we named it in the map which we are constructing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)