globular : Idioms & Phrases
Globular chart
- a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection.
Webster 1913
globular pearlite
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noun if steel or iron cool very slowly the cementite may occur in globules instead of in layers
granular pearlite.
WordNet
Globular projection
(Map Projection) , a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45°.
Webster 1913
Globular sailing
- sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.
