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  1. noun A representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens.
  2. noun Something that suggests such a representation, as in clarity of representation.
  3. noun Mathematics The correspondence of elements in one set to elements in the same set or another set.
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  • All names on the maps are as Flinders spelt them, but in the body of the book modern spellings have been adopted. —  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
  • The names with which they adorned their maps were a piece of courtiership and a means of currying favour with the great and powerful, just as their espionage, and their supply of illicitly-obtained and flavoured information to Decaen in Mauritius, were essays to advance their own interests by unworthy services. —  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
  • LAUSITZ, also a very Wendish country (called in English maps LUSATIA, -- which is its name in Monk-Latin, not now a spoken language). —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • What comes through in the study of all these maps is the incredible variety of dialect words that surveys of this kind can bring to light. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
  • The seven men and one woman-four military, four civilian'returned to the hut where the maps were and began their solemn discussion. —  Space
 

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