- present participle of map.
mapping
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Perhaps this existence is more about riding the ebb and flow than it is mapping the course.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Elsewhere in Miami, prominent Cuban-Americans are mapping out a provisional government, recruiting engineers to study floating power stations, and strategizing on repairs to the island’s crumbling infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
To build this detailed picture, the team combined single-cell technology, spatial mapping of brain tissue, and a newly developed deep learning model.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Waymo - another driverless car firm owned by Google's Alphabet - has cars which have been driving London's streets for several months carrying out mapping.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
I bet she’s mapping and charting out every last detail, searching the base of the bluff for hidden paths.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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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 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