mapping

noun

map·​ping ˈma-piŋ 

1

: the act or process of making a map

2

: function sense 5a

a one-to-one continuous mapping

Examples of mapping in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The county also created a mapping tool that allows the public to explore where these covenants existed and see how they were used over time. —Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 8 Mar. 2026

Clapper illuminated the installation with lightning bolts to symbolize speed, protection and pride, and included a perforated skin mapping nearby streets. —Christa Swanson, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026

Stedman lands every blow thanks to her patient accumulation of ordinary life, the shearing and mustering and fence-mending, the slow mapping of relationships that ensures each loss registers as something more than plot machinery. —Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026

The experiment operates on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas and goes beyond simply plotting galaxies to mapping structures that are faint and difficult to observe from the early universe, according to a statement. —Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1752, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for mapping

• capping
• clapping
• flapping
• lapping
• napping
• rapping
• sapping
• scrapping
• slapping
• snapping
• strapping
• tapping