Plot and Mapping

noun

• A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
  • usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
  • synonyms: secret plan, game
• A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
  • usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
  • synonyms: plot of land, plot of ground, patch
• The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..
  • usage: "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
• A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.

verb

• Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
  • usage: "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
• Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.
  • synonyms: diagram
• Make a plat of.
  • usage: "Plat the town"
  • synonyms: plat
• Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet. )
  • usage: "the writer is plotting a new novel"

• (v.i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
• (v.i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
• (n.) A plan; a purpose.
• (n.) A plantation laid out.
• (n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
• (n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
• (v.t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
• (v.t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
• (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
• (n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
• (n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
• (n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

(DoD, NATO) Map, chart, or graph representing data of any sort.
(DoD, NATO) Representation on a diagram or chart of the position or course of a target in terms of angles and distances from positions; location of a position on a map or a chart.
(DoD, NATO) The visual display of a single location of an airborne object at a particular instant of time.
(DoD, NATO) A portion of a map or overlay on which are drawn the outlines of the areas covered by one or more photographs. See also master plot.

noun

• Mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function. ()
  • synonyms: function, mathematical function, single-valued function, map
• Genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome.
  • synonyms: chromosome mapping

verb

• Make a map of; show or establish the features of details of.
  • usage: "map the surface of Venus"
  • synonyms: map
• Explore or survey for the purpose of making a map.
  • usage: "We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist"
  • synonyms: map
• Locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences.
  • usage: "map the genes"
  • synonyms: map
• Plan, delineate, or arrange in detail.
  • usage: "map one's future"
  • synonyms: map, map out
• Depict as if on a map.
  • usage: "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face"
  • synonyms: map
• To establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets. ).
  • synonyms: map, represent

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Map.

Mapping refers to the presentation of financial positions. It is used in risk and portfolio management. It can be graphical or tabular.