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mappings

mappings is the plural of mapping.

Meaning of mapping

Noun

mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)

  1. The process of making maps.
  2. The process of locating genes on a chromosome.
  3. Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.
  4. A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence.
  5. (object-oriented programming) conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.

Phrases with mappings

Questions about mappings

What is mappings the plural of?
Mappings is the plural of mapping.

Words near mappings in the dictionary

  1. mapping class groups
  2. mapping onto
  3. mapping out
  4. mapping reduction
  5. mapping reductions
  6. mappings
  7. mappist
  8. mappists
  9. Mapplebeck
  10. Mapplebecks
  11. Mapplethorpe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mappings (page history and authors); mapping (page history and authors). 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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