- present participle of map.
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Its research vessels are meticulously mapping the oceans, from the Mariana Trench to the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Though Taipei has an edge in mapping waters close to shore that are off limits to Chinese research vessels, Beijing has elevated oceanography to a national strategic priority, investing in ships and advanced underwater drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But mapping relationships "allows the public to ask informed questions and assess how those parties respond".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The new "transmission strings" technique, also called transit mapping, examines the opposite part of the planet's orbit.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The mapping was the most important part, since location and surprise were our two biggest assets on this mission.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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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