An operation that associates each element of a given set (the domain) with one or more elements of a second set (the range).
〔数，语言学〕映射；映现
Example sentencesExamples
His doctoral thesis is an important contribution to conformal mappings of multiply connected plane domains.
He discovered characterisations of topological mappings of the Cartesian plane and a number of fixed point theorems.
In his analysis of motion verbs, Langacker has focused, not on metaphorical mappings between domains, but on abstract conceptual structures which are schematic for different domains.
Another area which Suvorov worked on was the theory of conformal mappings and quasi-formal mappings.
He worked on the theory of continuous mappings of topological spaces.
Definition of mapping in US English:
mapping
nounˈmapiNGˈmæpɪŋ
Mathematics Linguistics
An operation that associates each element of a given set (the domain) with one or more elements of a second set (the range).
〔数，语言学〕映射；映现
Example sentencesExamples
Another area which Suvorov worked on was the theory of conformal mappings and quasi-formal mappings.
In his analysis of motion verbs, Langacker has focused, not on metaphorical mappings between domains, but on abstract conceptual structures which are schematic for different domains.
His doctoral thesis is an important contribution to conformal mappings of multiply connected plane domains.
He discovered characterisations of topological mappings of the Cartesian plane and a number of fixed point theorems.
He worked on the theory of continuous mappings of topological spaces.