A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.

Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map.

in computer graphics, a 2D raster image which serves as an image or texture in rendering, particularly in a multi-channel texture

A representation of the various routes which could be taken on a journey; not to be confused with the routes themselves. In the same way lots of books and other materials can be seen as maps for one's spiritual journey, but studying these should not be confused with actually taking the journey.

can mean Manufacturing Application Protocol, Merchant Account Provider, Minimum Advertised Price, or Major Accounts Processing among many others.

Manufacturing Automation Protocol. Networking architecture, based on token bus protocol, developed by General Motors for automating manufacturing processes.

Manufacturing Automation Protocol. Application-specific protocol based on Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standards. It is designed to allow communication among competing vendors' digital products in the factory.

See Manufacturing Automation Protocol.

Illinois Monetary Award Program (Administered by ISAC)

Monetary Award Program. Provides grant assistance to Illinois residents who are first-time undergraduate students with exceptional financial need.

Motorist Assurance Program. Acronym for "Motorist Assurance Program," an organization that has developed voluntary uniform inspection guidelines and a code of ethics for the auto repair industry.

Municipal Assistance Program

See Market Assistance Plan

UNEP's Mediterranean Action Plan

Management Achievement Plan

Munitions Action Plan. A DoD plan to develop, procure and test munitions that meet military performance and operational requirements while enhancing explosives safety and reducing the potential for adverse effects to the environment during the munitions life cycle.

Mean Airway Pressure - The time-averaged pressure measured in the patient circuit during one or more assisted breath.

see Mean Arterial Pressure

MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE. is the value of pressure which would exist at the output node of the heart if there would be no arterial pulsations. Its approximate value is MAP = {[(Systolic - Diastolic)/3] + Diastolic}. In HOTMAN(tm) F11X System MAP is directly measured by the built in NIBP device.

Mean Arterial Pressure. The time-weighted average of systolic and diastolic pressures.

Microwave Anisotropy Probe. A MIDEX (see below) satellite scheduled for launch in the autumn of 2000.

Microwave-Assisted Processing

The terrain played for each Mission. Three Maps are available for each Turn in a Round. There are a total of 24 Campaign/Conquest maps, with an additional "training" map (Mission 00) available only in Free Mission mode. See the mission information pages for more detail.

mission area plan

To translate a range of memory in one address space (physical or virtual) to a range in another address space. The virtual-memory manager accomplishes this by adjusting its VM tables for the kernel and user processes.

Mapping is the process of assigning a design's logic elements to the specific physical elements that actually implement logic functions in a device.

A game level; the virtual environment you're playing in (for example: 2fort is a map, and so is rock2).

In general, to translate from one set of symbols to another. Particularly, translate one range of memory addresses to the addresses for the corresponding space in another system. The virtual memory hardware maps the process address space onto pages of physical memory. The mapping registers in a DMA device map bus addresses to physical memory corresponding to a buffer. The mmap(2) system call maps part of process address space onto the contents of a file.

An unordered persistent collection of key-value pairs in which the key is a string and the value is a persistent object.

An associative container that contains pairs of objects consisting of a key and a value. Objects can be located by using their key.

interface supports lookup of objects by unique key. Keys may or may not be ordered.

Numerical lookup of pixel data that modifies each pixel without using neighboring pixels. This large category of video editing functions includes clip/gain, solarization, and histogram equalization.

modified atmosphere packaging containing modified atmosphere or protecting atmosphere. Different aeration of packaging and barrirers (e.g. protection against CO2, N2, O2, vapour or UV light) within the packaging extends the shelf life of the products

a packaging method in which a combination of gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen is introduced into the package at the time of closure. Purpose is to extend shelf life of the product packaged. (example: lunch meat in a blister package)

modified atmosphere packaging. A packaging technique that uses a gas-flushing process to reduce oxygen and maximize a product's shelf life.

(Modified atmosphere packaging) is the term used for methods that will help to maintain the quality of a food product by changing the atmosphere inside its retail package. For example, reduce the availability of oxygen or manipulate the levels of carbon dioxide. It produces a gas mix to maximise shelf life.

To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.

To dream of maps signify journeys and changes. The larger the map in your dream, the more distant will be the travel, and the greater the changes. The more brightly colored the map, the happier the forecast.

To dream of a map, or studying one, denotes a change will be contemplated in your business. Some disappointing things will occur, but much profit also will follow the change. To dream of looking for one, denotes that a sudden discontent with your surroundings will inspire you with new energy, and thus you will rise into better conditions. For a young woman, this dream denotes that she will rise into higher spheres by sheer ambition.

A simplified detail print or sketch usually showing just the location and sizes of holes in a detail or steel.

Netware's ability to assign disk drive letters G-Z to stand for network paths. Mapping a path to a drive letter provides a simple solution to the complexity of network paths (see Path) which include the server and volume names as well as the directory specification.

To assign a drive letter to a network directory. With a drive letter mapped to a directory, you can type the drive letter (such as or ) instead of typing the entire directory path in a command.

A NetWare command used on client stations to convert Network volumes into workstation drive letters.

To establish a connection from a local file system to a remote one, typically by assigning a driver letter to the remote view (in Windows).

1. To assign a new interpretation of a terminal key. For example, you can "map" the @ key to represent the sequence a-Esc-j. 2. A file used by NIS that holds information of a particular type, for example, the password entries of all users on a network or the names of all host machines on a network.

(1) (n.) A file used by NIS that holds information of a particular type; for example, the password entries of all users on a network or the names of all host machines on a network.(2) (v.) To assign a new interpretation of a terminal key. For example, in vi, you can map, the @ key to represent the sequence a-Esc-j.

A system database, such as the password or hosts maps, in the Network Information Service (NIS).

Files used by the Network Information Service (NIS) ypserv program to handle name requests.

maintenance analysis procedure. n. A hardware maintenance document that gives an IBM service representative a step-by-step procedure for tracing a symptom to the cause of a failure.

maintenance analysis procedure. Documentation used by customer engineers and by service representatives to repair equipment. A MAP contains yes/no questions and procedures that direct the user to the failing part of the equipment.

See maintenance analysis procedure.

Maintenance and administration panel. On a PBX, the device that allows you to maintain and administer the system.

A text file that contains information about the program being linked, including the groups in the program and a list of public symbols. The linker names the mapfile with the base name of the program and the filename extension .MAP.

Linker Map (file name extension)

Linker / Link Instructions

Image or Color Palette or Micrografx Format Data Linker Map or Duke Nukem WAD File

This is a web shared map for the 3D world of the MMORPG MountyHall. It works alone or in addition with the Mozilla extension 'Mountyzilla + MAP', itself based on extension 'Mountyzilla'.

An Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)-based transformation used to convert instance messages that conform to one BizTalk Server schema into instance messages that conform to another BizTalk Server schema.

An XML file that defines the correspondence between the records and fields in one specification and the records and fields in another specification. A map contains an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) style sheet that is used by BizTalk Server to perform the transformation described in the map. Maps are created in BizTalk Mapper.

The GSM / 3G PP compliant MAP Stack enables signaling between different network entities such as HLR, MSC/VLR, SGSN and GGSN. This stack is built on top of the Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) layer, which is the top most layer of the Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) stack.

Mobility Application Part "The SS7 Protocol layer MAP provides a GSM Network with a mechanism to communicate between its component parts and other networks. It allows MSCs to communicate with VLR,HLR's and BSC's.It provides the underlying signalling for SMS and Location Based services."

Mobile Application Part

A function that is usually understood to be iterated in discrete time steps.

A function from a set to itself, which we iterate to define an orbit , .

Program developed by Huang which computes a multiple global alignment using an iterative pairwise method.

An indexed and ordered container class. Unlike a vector or deque, the index values for a map can be any ordered data type (such as a string or character). Values are maintained in sequence, and can be efficiently inserted, accessed or removed in any order.

locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences; "map the genes"

In many programming languages, map is the name of a higher-order function that applies a given function to a sequence of elements (such as a list) and returns a sequence of results. They are examples of both catamorphisms and anamorphisms.

Map - linkage editor

(text) Generic map file. A ASCII-file containing information for the build tools, how they should produce a .BSP file. A .MAP file is typically generated by a map-editor, and it can be edited using a standard ASCII editor. QuArK can read this format.

a ".map" file is a text file that contains quake level information. it is unusable until it is bsp-ed and rad-ed. vis optionally speeds up the final bsp level in quake. although it is possible to create a .map file by hand, most people use a level editor. Quake II's map format is similar to Quake I's, but they are incompatible. more mapping info at the Guide...

Merchant Account Provider. Either a bank or other institution that will host a merchant account and process credit card transactions.

The merchant's affiliate program; in the inverse direction of the MLE AP

Merchant Account Provider. A bank or other institution that hosts merchant accounts and processes online credit card transactions. The term is also often used broadly to include any credit card processing service

A descriptive drawing or delineation of a section of the country.

plan, delineate, or arrange in detail; "map one's future"

To represent abstract concepts or ideas (or three-dimensional objects) on a flat surface, by delineating their elements in chart or graphic form, showing connections and relationships among them.