map

Meaning

Noun

1. A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
2. A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
3. A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
5. The face.
6. An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
7. Synonym of associative array.

Verb

1. To represent by means of a map.
2. To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
3. To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
4. To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
5. To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
6. To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mæp/

Etymology

Shortening or back-formation of Middle English mappemounde, mapemounde (“world map”), from Old French mapamonde, from Medieval Latin mappa mundī, compound of Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”) and mundus (“world”). See mop for more on the first component.