Meanings
plural mappers
- One who produces a map.
Synonyms: cartographer
- video gamesA designer of levels for video games.
As he churned out early versions of the Quake III engine, the mappers and artists felt adrift, with no direction on what to pursue.
2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - businessA software or hardware component that performs a mapping.
Throughout the Famicom's life span, Nintendo produced several ASIC mappers, which grew in capability and specialty, allowing the Famicom to break many of its own hardware rules.
2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who produces a map.
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Translations
French cartographe
- cartographeone who maps
Hindi मापक
- मापक (māpak)one who maps
Spanish mapeador
- mapeadorone who maps
Vietnamese nhà lập bản đồ, người lập bản đồ
- nhà lập bản đồone who maps
- người lập bản đồone who maps
- nhà vẽ bản đồone who maps
- người vẽ bản đồone who maps
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Cite this entry
mapper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mapper
“mapper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mapper. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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