mercator : Idioms & Phrases

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gerardus mercator

  • noun Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
    Gerhard Kremer; Mercator.
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mercator projection

  • noun a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator
    Mercator projection.
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mercator's chart

Mer*ca"tor's chart"
Definitions
  1. See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.
Webster 1913

mercator's projection

  • noun a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator
    Mercator projection.
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