- present participle of map.
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It was the Internet’s leading mapping site when America Online acquired it in December 1999 for $1.1 billion, or roughly $2.2 billion in today’s dollars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, will in the coming weeks start mapping the city's streets and conducting tests with specialist drivers at the wheel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
"This detailed mapping of synaptic vulnerability could eventually help identify where and how to intervene to preserve or restore brain function, such as emerging therapies to prevent and regrow synapses," Holmes added.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
She added that safety precautions are engrained in her courses, including training on how to predict fire behaviour and mapping out at least two safe escape routes.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
I rushed back to my room, skirting past my parents and their ever-growing dark matter, and got to work on mapping out a plan.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
According to Martin Brandt, mappings with this level of precision and detail had never been possible.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
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 Lothrop Stoddard
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