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mapless

US/ˈmæpləs/

mapless adjective: without a map or maps.

Adjective

mapless (not comparable)

  1. Without a map or maps.
    • According to Mercedes, this is a mapless system, instead using the data from the car's cameras and sensors to plot the road, making this easily scalable to any location.2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3
  2. Unmapped.
    • It had seemed that the earth now offered nothing further to explorers; that the virgin forest, the untrodden desert, the mapless mountain, the unjourneyed sea were all things of the past[…]1955, John Stewart Collis, The Moving Waters, page 86

Origin of mapless

From map + -less.

Words formed from mapless

Questions about mapless

What does mapless mean?
Mapless means without a map or maps.
What part of speech is mapless?
Mapless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce mapless?
Mapless is pronounced /ˈmæpləs/ (US).

Words near mapless in the dictionary

  1. Maplebecks
  2. maplelike
  3. Mapler
  4. Maplers
  5. maples
  6. mapless
  7. maplessness
  8. maplet
  9. mapletini
  10. mapletinis
  11. Mapleton

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