- 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
Those meetings also include game-planning for the party and mapping out responsibilities, Addicks said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
If astronomers observe the same relationship in other clusters, particularly those from the early universe, intracluster light could become a valuable new tool for mapping dark matter across cosmic history.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
They were geologists who specialized in mapping previous eruptions.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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 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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