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noun
Any systematic method of transforming the spherical representation of parallels, meridians and geographic features of the Earth's surface to a nonspherical surface, usually a plane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cartography, geography, natural-sciences
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noun
a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: projection
Narrower terms: conformal projection, orthomorphic projection, conic projection, conical projection, equal-area projection, equal-area map projection, Mercator projection, Mercator's projection
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