mapping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæpɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: map‧ping
Noun
mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)
- The process of making maps.
- (biology) The process of locating genes on a chromosome.
- (computing) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.
- (mathematics) A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence.
- (object-oriented programming) conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.
Hyponyms
- (computing): object-relational mapping
Derived terms
- 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
Translations
process of making maps
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process of locating genes on a chromosome
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function that maps every element of a given set to a unique element of another set
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object-oriented programming: conversion of data types between incompatible type systems
Verb
mapping
- present participle and gerund of map
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmapin/ [ˈma.pĩn]
- Rhymes: -apin
- Syllabification: map‧ping
Noun
mapping m (plural mappings)