The difference between Map and Mapping
When used as nouns, map means a visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, whereas mapping means the process of making maps.
Map is also verb with the meaning: to create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
check bellow for the other definitions of Map and Mapping
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Map as a noun:
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.
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Map as a noun:
A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes.
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Map as a noun (mathematics):
A function.
Examples:
"Let <math>f</math> be a map from <math>\mathbb{R}</math> to <math>\mathbb{R}</math>"
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Map as a noun:
The butterfly .
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Map as a noun (UK, old-fashioned):
The face.
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Map as a noun (board games, computer games):
An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
Examples:
"I don't want to play this map again!"
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Map as a verb:
To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.
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Map as a verb:
To inform someone of a particular idea.
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Map as a verb (mathematics, transitive, followed by a "[[to]]" phrase):
To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
Examples:
"<math>f</math> maps <math>A</math> to <math>B</math>, mapping every <math>a\in A</math> to <math>f(a)\in B</math>."
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Mapping as a noun:
The process of making maps.
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Mapping as a noun (biology):
The process of locating genes on a chromosome.
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Mapping as a noun (computing):
Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.
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Mapping as a noun (mathematics):
A function that maps every element of a given set to a unique element of another set; a correspondence.
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Mapping as a noun (object-oriented programming):
conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.
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Mapping as a verb: