- present participle of map.
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But we sit around and talk and make notes, and Jamie goes off and does the nitty gritty of mapping it out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her home experiment, which she and Johnson are broadcasting on social media, is aimed at mapping her biological data over the course of her menstrual cycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Some consultants bill themselves as senior downsizing experts and can provide guidance in mapping out a move.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Suddenly he remembered the nightmare that had woken him, and how he had tried to steady himself by mapping the island in his head.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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
“Structure mapping” work in AI focused on logic-based representations of situations and making mappings between them.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 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 Stoddard, Lothrop
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