- present participle of map.
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But mapping relationships "allows the public to ask informed questions and assess how those parties respond".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
James Webb's extraordinary sensitivity has already enabled scientists to investigate alien atmospheres using a method called eclipse mapping.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The calendar and mapping platform is scheduled to launch in January 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
"With solar shingles, we don't really have the benefit of that mapping; there's no room underneath the shingle for the electronics."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
It required mapping strategy and listening to your neighbors and building trust in communities where trust was often lacking.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
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