The word mapping has several senses:
- In cartography, creating maps depicting features on the earth's surface by various means, such as land surveying or photogrammetry.
- In mathematics and related technical fields, especially topology and geometry, it is some kind of function: see map (mathematics).
- In computer science, it can be any computable function, a procedure, or a table, e.g. relating a key to its value in an associative array.
- In computer games, the process of buiding a virtual environment for a new game.
- In formal logic, it is sometimes used for a functional predicate.
- In cognitive psychology, it is the relationship between a source domain and target domain, typically reflecting a conceptual metaphor.
- In genetics, gene mapping reveals the relative position of genes in a genome.
Specific senses of mapping in computer science include
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- See also: map, cartography