mapping
Syllables: map·ping/ˈmæpɪŋ/
mapping noun: the process of making maps. Also the present participle and gerund of map.
Noun
mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)
- The process of making maps.
- The process of locating genes on a chromosome.
- Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.
- A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence.
- conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.
Also used as
mapping is also the present participle and gerund of map.
mapping meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mapping in Hindi
- मानचित्रण, मैपिंग
mapping in Tamil
- மேப்பிங்
mapping in Marathi
- मॅपिंग, मानचित्रण
mapping in Urdu
- نقشہ سازی, نقشہ بندی
More languagesFewer languages
- mapping in Bengali
- ম্যাপিং, ম্যাপিং করা
- mapping in Telugu
- మ్యాపింగ్, మ్యాప్ చేయడం
- mapping in Malayalam
- മാപ്പിംഗ്, മാപ്പിങ്
- mapping in Kannada
- ಮ್ಯಾಪಿಂಗ್
- mapping in Punjabi
- ਮੈਪਿੰਗ
- mapping in Gujarati
- મેપિંગ, નકશાકરણ
- mapping in Odia
- ମ୍ଯ଼ାପିଂ, ମାନଚିତ୍ରଣ, ମ୍ଯାପିଂ
- mapping in Nepali
- म्यापिङ, म्यापिङ्ग
Examples of mapping in a sentence
- The team is mapping the route of the new railway line.
- Birational geometry amounts to the study of mappings given by rational functions rather than polynomials.
- The operating system's page table consists of mappings from (virtual) pages to page frames.
Forms of mapping
| plural | mappings |
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Words formed from mapping
- automapping
- biomapping
- bump mapping
- conformal mapping
- countermapping
- crossmapping
- cube mapping
- displacement mapping
- environment mapping
- heatmapping
- imagemapping
- immunomapping
- karyomapping
- keymapping
- lightmapping
- mapping class group
- mapping reduction
- micromapping
- multimapping
- phosphomapping
- photon mapping
- reflection mapping
- Schwarz-Christoffel mapping
- shadow mapping
- shear mapping
- skymapping
- time-one mapping
- tone mapping
Phrases with mapping
Questions about mapping
- What does mapping mean?
- Mapping means the process of making maps.
- What is mapping in Hindi?
- Mapping in Hindi is मानचित्रण, मैपिंग. See Mapping meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mapping?
- Mapping is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mapping?
- Mapping is pronounced /ˈmæpɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of mapping?
- The plural of mapping is mappings.
Words near mapping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mapping (page history and authors); mapping (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mapping (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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