Definition of Mapmaking

1. Noun. The making of maps and charts.

Exact synonyms: Cartography
Generic synonyms: Devising, Fashioning, Making
Derivative terms: Cartographer, Cartographical

Definition of Mapmaking

1. Noun. Cartography, the making of maps and charts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mapmaking

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mapmaking

maple syrup
maple syrup urine
maple syrup urine disease
maple syrups
maplelike
maples
mapless
maplet
maplets
mapley
maplike
maplike skull
maply
mapmaker
mapmakers
mapmaking (current term)
mapmakings
mappability
mappable
mapped
mapped out
mappemonde
mappemondes
mapper
mapperies
mappers
mappery
mappine
mapping

Literary usage of Mapmaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical And Creative Thinking In Middle And by Matt Copeland (2005)
"mapmaking A third informal assessment technique that also produces a graphic representation of the inner circle's dialogue is mapmaking. ..."

2. Horgan's Half-tone and Photomechanical Processes by Stephen Henry Horgan (1913)
"... photogravure has since been used in many European countries for mapmaking, while Major J. Waterhouse perfected the process for government use in India. ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
""An admirable example of mapmaking, a thorough work«1*'1 way, clear, compact, precise, with hardi va broken letter even tele The States of this country, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In trigonometry, surveying and mapmaking, a base or base-line is a straight line measured on the ground from the two extremities of which angles will be ..."

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