- present participle of map.
mapping
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But we sit around and talk and make notes, and Jamie goes off and does the nitty gritty of mapping it out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Some consultants bill themselves as senior downsizing experts and can provide guidance in mapping out a move.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Researchers are developing solutions like AI-powered “self-healing grids” and detailed heat mapping to increase urban climate resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Being in the room helped me understand more about the geometry of the space program as well as the mapping between locations that I was constantly asked to calculate.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
This research is providing a unique window onto mappings between mechanism and phenomenology, but we are just beginning to scratch the surface.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2018
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 Stoddard, Lothrop