- present participle of map.
mapping
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MapQuest, an American free web mapping service launched in 1996, said "we're not changing it" in a short Facebook post on Friday.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
It was the Internet’s leading mapping site when America Online acquired it in December 1999 for $1.1 billion, or roughly $2.2 billion in today’s dollars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The OS first started mapping Britain 230 years ago and has since documented the changes in the country's topography.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
While living there, George did not get much schooling, but he did learn surveying—the mapping of the land.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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It is straightforward to come up with examples of functions that merge points, and also examples of polynomial mappings that have a constant Jacobian determinant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
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 reason these heart-music mappings work is because abnormal heart rhythms tend to form simple inter-beat-interval ratios.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2021
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