map

About 34.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Austronesian languages.
2. noun A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

   a map of Australia, a map of Lilliput

3. noun A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.

   a map of the Earth's magnetic field

4. noun A function, especially a function satisfying a certain property (e.g. continuity, linearity, etc.; see Usage notes).

   Let f be a map from ℝ to ℝ

5. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
6. noun The face.
7. noun An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.

   I don't want to play this map again!

8. noun Synonym of associative array.

Similar words

map out correspondence represent chart cartography cartographic topography plan charting planar

Often followed by

of and is the to in for on showing

Word family

MAP Map Walter Map genetic map maplike mappable mapped mapper mappers mapping