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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A map projection that is neither equal-area nor conformal, designed as a compromise to show the entire world as a flat image.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cartography, geography, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963.
