| Noun | 1. | map - a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)chart - a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea plat - a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.) representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something road map - a map showing roads (for automobile travel) sketch map - a map drawn from observation (rather than from exact measurements) and representing the main features of an area weather chart, weather map - a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region | |
| 2. | map - a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another setfunction, mathematical function - a mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set isometry - a one-to-one mapping of one metric space into another metric space that preserves the distances between each pair of points; "the isometries of the cube" | |
| Verb | 1. | map - make a map of; show or establish the features of details of; "map the surface of Venus"chart - make a chart of; "chart the territory" plat, plot - make a plat of; "Plat the town" interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" map - depict as if on a map; "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face" | |
| 2. | map - explore or survey for the purpose of making a map; "We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist"explore - travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in biology" | |
| 3. | map - locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences; "map the genes"situate, locate - determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" | |
| 4. | map - plan, delineate, or arrange in detail; "map one's future"contrive, design, plan, project - make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" | |
| 5. | map - depict as if on a map; "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face"depict, picture, show, render - show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" map - make a map of; show or establish the features of details of; "map the surface of Venus" | |
| 6. | map - to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | |