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mapless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmæpləs/ (US)

Etymology

From map + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a map or maps.
    • According to Mercedes, this is a mapless system, instead using the data from the car's cameras and sensors to plot the road, making this easily scalable to any location. 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3:
  2. (not-comparable) Unmapped.
    • It had seemed that the earth now offered nothing further to explorers; that the virgin forest, the untrodden desert, the mapless mountain, the unjourneyed sea were all things of the past[…] 1955, John Stewart Collis, The Moving Waters, page 86:

Deriveds

maplessness