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roadmap

roadmap is the alternative form of road map.

Meaning of road map

Noun

road map (plural road maps)

  1. A map with a visual representation of roads used for automobile travel and navigation. A road map may contain other relevant data, such as terrain or railway lines.
  2. (figuratively) A plan of action, laying out the future actions of participants.
    • road map for peace
  3. A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, used in business for strategic planning and communications.
    • CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236

Verb

roadmap (third-person singular simple present roadmaps, present participle roadmapping, simple past and past participle roadmapped)

  1. (transitive) To construct a plan of action regarding (something).
    • More specifically, we believe that such an approach should be: […] Opportunistic in using available software but also planned when developing new software, with the latter carefully roadmapped.2002, Gary J. Chastek, editor, Software Product Lines: Second International Conference, SPLC 2, San Diego, CA, USA, August 19–22, 2002. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 335

Forms of roadmap

Noun
pluralroadmaps
Verb
third-person singular presentroadmaps
present participleroadmapping
past participleroadmapped
pastroadmapped

Origin of roadmap

From road + map.

Questions about roadmap

What does roadmap mean?
Roadmap means to construct a plan of action regarding (something).
What is roadmap the alternative form of?
Roadmap is the alternative form of road map.
What part of speech is roadmap?
Roadmap is a verb.
What is the past tense of roadmap?
The past tense of roadmap is roadmapped.

Words near roadmap in the dictionary

  1. roadline
  2. roadmaker
  3. roadmakers
  4. roadmaking
  5. roadman
  6. roadmap
  7. roadmapped
  8. roadmapping
  9. roadmaps
  10. roadmaster
  11. roadmasters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roadmap (page history and authors); road map (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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