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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

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 mathematics:

Map (or mapping) is often a Synonym for Function

Functional Predicate , a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term

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

In neuroscience:

Brain Mapping , set of techniques to study the brain