- present participle of map.
mapping
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"This detailed mapping of synaptic vulnerability could eventually help identify where and how to intervene to preserve or restore brain function, such as emerging therapies to prevent and regrow synapses," Holmes added.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
"I would argue there is no clearer way to see the impact of climate change than looking at a traditional map," Tom Gray, a utilities and transport expert for Britain's national mapping agency, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
She added that safety precautions are engrained in her courses, including training on how to predict fire behaviour and mapping out at least two safe escape routes.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
That uncertainty deserves careful consideration before you start mapping out your real-estate plans.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
With little formal schooling, Washington became a surveyor in his teens, measuring and mapping Virginia’s enormous, unsettled wilderness.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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According to Martin Brandt, mappings with this level of precision and detail had never been possible.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
The show, on view through December in the University Art Gallery, is a practice in “funkified placemaking,” or architectural mappings meant to reflect a sense of home through specific names, objects, symbols, colors and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
The cardinality of the set of natural numbers and all others which are equivalent to it through one-to-one mappings is called ‘aleph-naught’, denoted by the symbol .
From Scientific American ● Jan. 23, 2013
Does that include capturing your session ID information, personal information, emails, photos, chat conversations, mappings to your friends and family, etc?
From Forbes ● Mar. 24, 2011
Japan’s present activity is of course mere reconnoitring—testings and mappings of terrain for possible later action on a more extensive scale.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard