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mapping

[map-ing] / ˈmæp ɪŋ /




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The proliferation of satellites is an “existential threat” to the observatory’s work, said J. Anthony Tyson, its chief scientist, who is best known for mapping dark matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Research ships also use remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles for detailed mapping in deep waters.

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 new "transmission strings" technique, also called transit mapping, examines the opposite part of the planet's orbit.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 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

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


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