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mapping

[map-ing] / ˈmæp ɪŋ /




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Its research vessels are meticulously mapping the oceans, from the Mariana Trench to the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Though Taipei has an edge in mapping waters close to shore that are off limits to Chinese research vessels, Beijing has elevated oceanography to a national strategic priority, investing in ships and advanced underwater drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

But mapping relationships "allows the public to ask informed questions and assess how those parties respond".

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The transit mapping measurements also supported other previously identified characteristics of WASP-17b.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The mapping of the moon, beginning with van Langren in 1645, provided a crucial precedent for eponymic naming, helping to transfer it from geography to astronomy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

They learn mappings from inputs to outputs, sometimes with impressive generalization, but the computation is still a digital procedure running on hardware built for a very different style of computing.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025

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


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