mercator projection

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mercator projection has 1 sense

mercator projection(n = noun.artifact) mercator's projection - a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator; Array

is a kind of map projection

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

mercator projection, n. (also Mercator's projection) a projection of a map of the world on to a cylinder so that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, first published in 1569 and used esp. for marine charts and certain climatological maps.

Etymology

G. Mercator (Latinized f. Kremer), Flemish-born geographer d. 1594

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