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'Mapping' may refer to:

★ Cartography, mapmaking

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★ Surveying, accurately determining the position of points in 3-D space

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★ Photogrammetry, inferring 3-D information from stereo photographs

★ Metaphor, cross mapping across two or more seemingly unrelated subjects

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★ Conceptual metaphor, in cognitive linguistics, understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain

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★ Analogy, inference from a particular to another particular

★ Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes
In 'mathematics':

★ Map (or mapping) is often a synonym for function

★ Functional predicate, a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term
In 'computing':

★ Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models

★ Level design, the creation of levels, locales, stages, or missions for a video game

★ Memory-mapped I/O, hardware pretending to be memory

★ Virtual memory, a memory management technique

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★ Paging, a memory allocation technique

★ Texture mapping, in computer graphics

★ Relational database
In 'neuroscience':

★ Brain mapping, set of techniques to study the brain