- present participle of map.
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LA28 Cultural Olympiad Executive Director Nora Halpern and Jones provided updates on plans first outlined in May, including an official Cultural Olympiad mark recognizing participating programs and a digital calendar and mapping platform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Together, these findings show that lipid mapping can reveal important features of brain organization that are not apparent from anatomy or genetic information alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Israeli government’s mapping agency last month briefly released high-resolution, unblurred images on the internet of northern Gaza from 2025 that showed several Israeli military outposts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Army program aims to put cutting-edge AI, mapping and communication technology in soldiers’ hands at a time when cheap drones and precision missiles force troops to be more spread out and nimble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
These inventions include side-scan sonar, which proved invaluable when locating shipwrecks, advanced underwater picture-taking equipment, and equally advanced methods of mapping a wreck site.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
It is straightforward to come up with examples of functions that merge points, and also examples of polynomial mappings that have a constant Jacobian determinant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
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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