map

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English

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A map of the world.

Etymology

Shortening of Middle English mapemounde (“world map”), Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”), mappa borrowed from Phoenician (compare Talmudic Hebrew מפה (maffa), contraction of  (menafa, “fluttering banner”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

map (plural maps)

  1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
    • 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106: 
      Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
  2. (mathematics) A function.
    The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.
  3. (topology) A continuous function.
  4. A diagram of components of an item.
  5. The butterfly Araschnia levana.
  6. (UK, old-fashioned) Someone's face.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
      And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.

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Translations

visual representation of an area
function
continuous function
diagram of components of an item
city map
butterfly

Verb

map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)

  1. To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
  2. To inform someone of a particular idea.
  3. (mathematics, transitive) To act as a function on.
    f maps A to B, mapping a\in A to b\in B.
  4. (topology, transitive) To act as a continuous function on.
    The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always mappings.

Derived terms

Translations

to create a visual representation of a territory
to inform someone of a particular idea
to act as a function on

Anagrams

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Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton mab, Old Irish macc.

Noun

map m (plural mebyow)

  1. son
  2. boy
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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

map f (plural mappen, diminutive mapje)

  1. folder
  2. (computing) directory, folder
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Lojban

Rafsi

map

  1. rafsi of mapku.
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Polish

Noun

map

  1. genitive plural of mapa
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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

map m (genitive map, plural mapaichean)

  1. Alternative form of mapa.
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