She believes the books we read are a kind of map of who we are.
The experience of the Johns-Manville Corporation, the building products maker that became synonymous with the health hazards of handling asbestos fibers, has provided a kind of map.
By attaching specific thoughts and feelings to land forms and structures, she lays out a kind of map of her brain function.
Each organ has its own pattern of Qi and each organ is represented on the tongue, which presents Zhai with a kind of map of the body's health.
Those blueprints are also a kind of map, almost a palm-reading sort of fate that ultimately draws Charlie away from his city life and toward what feels like an inescapable reckoning.
What follows is a kind of "map" of the cuartos de azotea, in or near downtown Mexico City, in which writers, painters, photographers, translators and editors lived and worked during the 1920s.
Nor, finally, do I support military intervention as a kind of map-rearranging tool of statesmanship: The costs in blood and treasure are too high, and American power too limited, to treat regime change and nation building as tasks to be undertaken outside of truly extraordinary, aftermath-of-World-War-II-type circumstances.
With that information, they traced the average trajectories of the photons by simply repeating the process while backing up the screen to create a kind of map.
2. It is also sometimes used to refer to a mathematical model that represents that space, a mathematical model that provides a kind of map of the set of possible states.
Another significant development involves "ontologies"—a kind of knowledge map to facilitate data organization and mining for certain predefined purposes (Noy and Musen 2003; Rubin et al. 2006; Stoeckert et al. 2006).
