Map (disambiguation)

A map is a visual, often 2-dimensional, representation of a space — e.g. as a navigational aid.

For help with maps in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps.

Map may also refer to:

• Map (video games), also known as a level, area, or world

Mathematics and Programming

• Map (mathematics), many uses
• Map (higher-order function), a higher-order function used to apply a function to a list of values and return another list with the results
• An associative array, an abstract data type composed of a collection of keys and a collection of values, where each key is associated with one value
  • Map (C++), an associative array implementation in the C++ language

Science

• Map (butterfly), a species of butterfly common in central and eastern Europe
• Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, a bacterium associated with Crohn's Disease.

Television, film, and music

• Map of the Human Heart, a 1993 film directed by Vincent Ward
• "Maps" (song), 2004 song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• "Map", the name of a character in Dora the Explorer
• Maps (anime), two OAV anime series released in 1987 and 1994
• "Map of the Problematique", a 2006 song by Muse
• "Map of Your Head", a 2002 song, also by Muse, see New Born
• Map (band), an indie band from Riverside, California
• Maps (band), an electronic indie band from the United Kingdom

MAP

MAP may refer to:

Organizations

• Malawi Against Polio
• Maghreb Arab Press, the official Moroccan news agency
• Medical Aid for Palestinians, a UK charity
• Mount Albert-Ponsonby, a New Zealand football club
• Municipal Alliance for Peace, a network to promote peace in the Middle East
• Museo de Arte Precolombino (Peru), an art museum of pre-Columbian art and artefacts in Cusco, Peru
• Muslim Association Party, a political party in the Gold Coast (now Ghana)
• Motorcycle Awareness Program, a program for teaching the driving public to maintain a greater awareness of motorcyclists
• Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlennosti - ministry of aviation industry (Soviet Union)
• Metropolitan Association for Progress - a not-for-profit operating in Las Vegas

Science and technology

• 'Manifold absolute pressure', the absolute pressure (relative to a vacuum) of the air in the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, see MAP sensor
• Mean arterial pressure, average blood pressure during a single cardiac cycle
• Microwave Anisotropy Probe, an unmanned NASA space mission, which studies cosmic microwave background radiation; later renamed to Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
• Missed approach point (aviation), the point prescribed in each instrument approach at which a missed approach procedure shall be executed if the required visual reference does not exist
• Monoammonium phosphate, a chemical compound
• Multiphoton-absorption photopolymerization, a micro-fabrication technique
• Markovian arrival processes, a description of arrivals to a queue
• Markov additive process
• Modified atmosphere packaging, the practice of modifying the composition of the internal atmosphere of a package in order to improve the shelf life
• Maximum a posteriori, a method of estimation in statistics
• Mean average precision, a metric of quality of search results in information retrieval

Computers

• Austronesian languages, MAP is the ISO 639 alpha-3 for this language family
• Mobile Application Part, a protocol for GSM, UMTS, and GPRS networks used to provide services to mobile phone users
• Multiple Address and Port, a feature of CAI Networks products
• Manufacturing Automation Protocol, a pioneer set of ISO communication protocols oriented to industry
• MAP (file format), a computer file format

Medicine and biology

• 2-methyl-3-pentyl-pyrrole, a terminal product from the bifurcated pathway of the biosynthesis of prodigiosin
• Microtubule-associated protein, a member of proteins that interact with the microtubules of the cellular cytoskeleton
• Mean Arterial Pressure, the driving force of blood flow
• Mitogen-activated protein, a mediator of intracellular signaling
• Morning-After Pill, a figurative term for emergency contraception
• Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, a strain of pathogenic bacteria

Business

• Managerial Assessment of Proficiency, a methodology for the assessment of managerial competence in human resource and training applications
• Minimum advertised price (resale price maintenance), a way of enforcing pricing structures in retail
• Modified American Plan - 2 meals (usually breakfast and one other meal) a day included in a hotel package

International relations

• Mediterranean Action Plan, a United Nations Environmental Programme plan
• Membership action plan, a stage for countries that are on their way to joining NATO

Other uses

• Missouri Assessment Program
• Mobile Assault Platoon, a type of military configuration for US forces in Iraq
• Medicinal and Aromatic Plant, an agricultural designation for wild or undomesticated plants gathered or grown for medicinal or aromatic value

See also

• MAPS (disambiguation)
• MAPP gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) mixed with methylacetylene-propadiene
• Mappy (disambiguation)
• Mapping (disambiguation)

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