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[edit] English

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A map of the world.

[edit] Etymology

Shortening of Middle English mapemounde 'world map', Old French mapemonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundi, compound of Latin mappa 'napkin, cloth' and mundus 'world', mappa borrowed from Phoenician (compare Talmudic Hebrew maffa, contraction of menafa 'fluttering banner'). More at mundane.

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map (plural maps)

  1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
  2. (mathematics) A function.
    The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.
  3. (topology) A continuous function.
  4. A diagram of components of an item.
  5. The butterfly Araschnia levana.
  6. (UK, old-fashioned) Someone's face.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
      And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught. He looked like Jack Dempsey at the conclusion of his first conference with Gene Tunney, the occasion, if you remember, when he forgot to duck.

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visual representation of an area
function
continuous function
diagram of components of an item
city map
butterfly

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map (third-person singular simple present maps, present participle mapping, simple past and past participle mapped)

  1. To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
  2. To inform someone of a particular idea.
  3. (mathematics, transitive) To act as a function on.
    f maps A to B, mapping a\in A to b\in B.
  4. (topology, transitive) To act as a continuous function on.
    The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always mappings.

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to create a visual representation of a territory
to inform someone of a particular idea
to act as a function on

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[edit] Cornish

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Cognate with Breton mab, Old Irish macc.

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map m. (plural mebyow)

  1. son
  2. boy

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map f. (plural mappen, diminutive mapje)

  1. folder
  2. (computing) directory, folder

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map m. (genitive map, plural mapaichean)

  1. Alternative form of mapa.
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