map
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8.6
- noun
- /mæp/
- Specialized
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aplicación
- Start with an authentic map or written directions that pinpoint a treasure on Plum Island.
- map to a structure
Examples
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The professor explained how to create a map to visualize data relationships between different sets.
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In mathematics, a function can be considered a map that associates each input with a unique output.
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Are you sure this is the road from that map?
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I marked it on the map.
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This is a photographic firm that contracts to make maps for the US Army.
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Teachers or students can use paint tools to draw geographic maps or to generate concept maps.
Academic text (1999) -
For comparison, the following chart maps the procedures followed for experimental and control subjects.
Academic text (1990) -
There's a sinkhole on the map.
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Nevertheless, migration to distant points on the map did not destroy the kinship network.
Academic text (2011) -
The substitute teacher, an impatient young pastor, pointed to a map where Mexico was colored gold.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
343
4.9
A rule in math or computing that gives one output for each input
11
4.2
A rule that links each thing in one group to a thing in another group
A rule that gives exactly one output for each input
A rule that gives each item in one group exactly one item in another group
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.5
A map that shows land height and shape using lines that join places at the same height
- Specialized
A map that uses colors or patterns to show how numbers like population change across areas
- Specialized
A way of drawing the world on a flat map that keeps areas the correct size
- Specialized
A method for drawing the Earth's round surface on a flat map that changes shapes or sizes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Map comes from the Latin mappa 'cloth' used for maps, and a map shows which place pairs with which. That same idea is used in mathematics: a mathematical map shows how each item in one set links to an item in another set.