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adj
Relating to a kind of areal interpolation that preserves density within defined regions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From pycno- + phylactic. Coined by Waldo Tobler in his 1979 paper "Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation for Geographical Regions", Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 74, number 367, pages 519-536.
