Mapping

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