NOUN | artifact | conic projection, conical projection | a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles |
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Meaning | A map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles. | |
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Synonym | conical projection | |
Narrower | polyconic projection | A conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe |
Broader | map projection | A projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines ... / lines of latitude and longitude |
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