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remapping

remapping is the present participle and gerund of remap.

Meaning of remap

Verb

remap (third-person singular simple present remaps, present participle remapping, simple past and past participle remapped)

  1. (transitive) To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose.
    • He remapped the variable in the code to hold the value directly, instead of a pointer to the value.
  2. (transitive) To map again.
    • Because the topography and development of the land changed so much in the floods, the region had to be remapped.

Noun

remapping (plural remappings)

  1. A new mapping.
    • A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2

Forms of remapping

pluralremappings

Questions about remapping

What does remapping mean?
Remapping means a new mapping.
What is remapping the present participle and gerund of?
Remapping is the present participle and gerund of remap.
What part of speech is remapping?
Remapping is a noun.
What is the plural of remapping?
The plural of remapping is remappings.

Words near remapping in the dictionary

  1. remap
  2. remappable
  3. remapped
  4. remapper
  5. remappers
  6. remapping
  7. remappings
  8. remaps
  9. remarch
  10. remarched
  11. remarches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: remapping (page history and authors); remap (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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