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Noun Concept
Categories: 16th-century inventions, Conformal projections, Map projections, Articles with short description, Cylindrical projections
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Mercator projection  Mercator's projection  Cylindrical conformal projection  Mercator chart  Mercator map
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A map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator WordNet 3.0
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A map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Wikipedia
A cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator Wikipedia Disambiguation
Cylindrical map projection invented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569 Wikidata
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map projection
conformal projection
cylindrical projection
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Mercator
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Mercator projection, Mercator's projection
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Mercator projection
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Mercator projection
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Mercator's projection, Mercator chart, Mercator map, Mercator map projection, Mercator Projection, Mercatur projection
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Cylindrical conformal projection

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