English Online Dictionary. What means mapping? What does mapping mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæpɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: map‧ping
Noun
mapping (countable and uncountable, plural mappings)
- The process of making maps.
- (biology) The process of locating genes on a chromosome.
- (computing) Assigning a PC to a shared drive or printer port on a network.
- (mathematics) A function that maps every element of a given mathematical structure (eg: a set) to a unique element of another structure; a correspondence.
- (object-oriented programming) conversion of data types between incompatible type systems.
Hyponyms
- (computing): object-relational mapping
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mapping
- present participle and gerund of map
References
- mapping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
Noun
mapping m (plural mappings)
- mapping