"mapper" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmæpɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mapper.wav [US] Forms: mappers [plural]
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  1. One who produces a map. Synonyms: cartographer Translations (one who maps): cartographe (French), मापक (māpak) [masculine] (Hindi), mapeador (Spanish), nhà lập bản đồ (Vietnamese), người lập bản đồ (Vietnamese), nhà vẽ bản đồ (Vietnamese), người vẽ bản đồ (Vietnamese)
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  2. (video games) A designer of levels for video games.
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  3. (computing, electronics) A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: craniomapper, lightning mapper, mind mapper, portmapper

Inflected forms

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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "one who maps",
      "word": "cartographe"
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      "sense": "one who maps",
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      ],
      "word": "मापक"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "one who maps",
      "word": "mapeador"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "sense": "one who maps",
      "word": "nhà lập bản đồ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "one who maps",
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    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
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      "sense": "one who maps",
      "word": "nhà vẽ bản đồ"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "one who maps",
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    }
  ],
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}

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