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Related topics: Technologymap2 past tense and past participle mapped, present participle mapping [transitive]
1TC to make a map of a particular area : 
He spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey.
He spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey.2TM to discover or show information about something, especially about its shape or arrangement, or how it moves or works : The points at which stress and anxiety emerge can be mapped.
The points at which stress and anxiety emerge can be mapped.map onto something
phrasal verbmap something ↔ out
phrasal verbHer own future had been mapped out for her by wealthy and adoring parents.