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Mercator projection
noun
: a conformal map projection of which the meridians are usually drawn parallel to each other and the parallels of latitude are straight lines whose distance from each other increases with their distance from the equator
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Even the colonial-era Mercator projection used to generate the familiar world map is being upended.
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Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
The famous Mercator projection—the one often found in classrooms across the U.S.—earned a score of 8.296.
—Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
The chief villain is the Mercator projection, an early-modern map in which distortion of all the features at the equator and poles was a result of the rendering of the lines of latitude and longitude at right angles for the purposes of navigation.
—WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
This 1797 chart uses a Mercator projection.
—Julie Rehmeyer, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2018
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Ashish Kothari, Scientific American, 1 June 2021
The famous Mercator projection—the one often found in classrooms across the U.S.—earned a score of 8.296.
—Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
The chief villain is the Mercator projection, an early-modern map in which distortion of all the features at the equator and poles was a result of the rendering of the lines of latitude and longitude at right angles for the purposes of navigation.
—WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
This 1797 chart uses a Mercator projection.
—Julie Rehmeyer, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2018
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“Mercator projection.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mercator%20projection. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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