Mapping may refer to:
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Mapping (cartography), the process of making a map
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Mapping (mathematics), a synonym for a mathematical function and its generalizations
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Mapping (logic)
In formal logic and related branches of mathematics, a functional predicate, or function symbol, is a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term.
Functional predicates are also sometimes called mappings, but ...
, a synonym for functional predicate
Types of mapping
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Animated mapping, the depiction of events over time on a map
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Brain mapping, the techniques used to study the brain
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Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models
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Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes
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Mind mapping, the drawing of ideas and the relations among them
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Projection mapping, the projection of videos on the surface of objects with irregular shapes
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Robotic mapping, creation and use of maps by robots
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Satellite mapping, taking photos of
Earth from
space
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Spiritual mapping
Spiritual warfare is the Christian concept of fighting against the work of preternatural evil forces. It is based on the biblical belief in evil spirits, or demons, that are said to intervene in human affairs in various ways. Although spiri ...
, a practice of some religions
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Texture mapping, in computer graphics
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Web mapping, mapping of data delivered by Geographic Information Systems
See also
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Mapping theorem (disambiguation)
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Mappings (poetry)
''Mappings'' is a first book of poems by Vikram Seth originally published by the Writers Workshop, Calcutta (now Kolkata), as a hand-set, hand-printed and hand-bound volume ("in Hardback or Flexiback") in 1980 or 1981 (the Flexiback edition copyr ...
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Surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...
, the field work of gathering map data
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