mapper
One who produces a map.
Noun
- One who produces a map.
Synonyms: cartographer
- A 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...
- A 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...
Origin
Etymology tree English map Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English mapper From map + -er.