1
: the act or process of making a map
2
: function sense 5a
a one-to-one continuous mapping
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The largest of these books, a twenty-five-foot-long, fifty-four-page compendium, provides a sweeping and decidedly asynchronous mapping of the artist’s interlocking body of work.
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Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
The act of mapping is never neutral.
—Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
Researchers performed the first aerial mapping of an entire watershed in Arizona to study the snowpack.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026
From there, the gene mapping went quickly, and scientists homed in on CDH1.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
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Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
The act of mapping is never neutral.
—Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
Researchers performed the first aerial mapping of an entire watershed in Arizona to study the snowpack.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026
From there, the gene mapping went quickly, and scientists homed in on CDH1.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Mapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mapping. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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