This meaning refers to diagrams showing locations, roads, boundaries, landforms, or other geographic features.
The guidebook contains several city maps.
Old maps show how the borders changed.
This broader meaning refers to visual models representing non-geographic relationships or systems.
The report includes maps of the network structure.
Mind maps help students organize ideas.
This is the third-person singular form of map and means surveying, recording, or representing features systematically.
The satellite maps the ocean floor.
The project maps changes in local vegetation.
In mathematics and computing, this meaning refers to defining a relationship or correspondence between sets, values, or objects.
The function maps each input to one output.
The database maps user IDs to account records.
