cartography

noun
/kɐː(ɹ)ˈtɔɡɹəfɪi̯//kɐɹˈtɒɡɹəfi/CA/kɑːˈtɒɡɹəfi/UK/kɑɹˈtɑɡɹəfi/US

Etymology

From French cartographie, from carte (“map”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “map”)) + -graphie (“-graphy”) (from γράφω (gráphō, “write”)); carto- (“map”) + -graphy.

  1. derived from cartographie

Definitions

  1. The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.

  2. An illustrative discussion of a topic.

    • In the early years of my psychedelic research, I sketched a vastly expanded cartography of the psyche that seems to meet this challenge.
    • The Dalit feminist standpoint, and more specifically the national Federation of Dalit Women, provide in very clear terms a cartography of governance that forces an official reckoning of a new way of seeing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cartography. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA