Mapping may refer to:

• Cartography, mapmaking
  • Surveying, accurately determining the position of points in 3-D space
  • Photogrammetry, inferring 3-D information from stereo photographs
• Functional predicate, a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term
• A mapping or map in mathematics, synonymous with a function.
• Metaphor, cross mapping across two or more seemingly unrelated subjects
  • Conceptual metaphor, in cognitive linguistics, understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain
  • Analogy, inference from a particular to another particular
• Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes

In computing:

• Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models
• Level design, the creation of levels, locales, stages, or missions for a video game
• Memory-mapped I/O, hardware pretending to be memory
• Virtual memory, a memory management technique
  • Paging, a memory allocation technique
• Texture mapping, in computer graphics
• Relational database

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