Mapping
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Mapping may refer to:
- Cartography, mapmaking
- *Surveying, accurately determining the position of points in 3-D space
- *Photogrammetry, inferring 3-D information from stereo photographs
- Functional predicate, a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term
- A mapping or map in mathematics, synonymous with a function.
- Metaphor, cross mapping across two or more seemingly unrelated subjects
- *Conceptual metaphor, in cognitive linguistics, understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain
- *Analogy, inference from a particular to another particular
- Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes
- 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
- *Paging, a memory allocation technique
- Texture mapping, in computer graphics
- Relational database
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