mapping

n. mapmaking

v. create a geographic diagram; plan; outline

Mapping may refer to:Cartography, mapmakingSurveying, accurately determining the position of points in 3-D spacePhotogrammetry, inferring 3-D information from stereo photographsMetaphor, cross mapping across two or more seemingly unrelated subjectsConceptual metaphor, in cognitive linguistics, understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domainAnalogy, inference from a particular to another particularGene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes
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n. mapping, mapmaking

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Map
  

Charting the location of genes on chromosomes.