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Conic Projection

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Noun

1. conic projection, conical projection

a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Conic Projection

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noun
a map projection on which the earth is shown as projected onto a cone with its apex over one of the poles and with parallels of latitude radiating from this apex

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Conic Projection

see synonyms of conic projection
a type of map projection made by projecting and reproducing an image of the earth's surface on the surface of a cone and unrolling this to a plane surface on which the parallels of latitude are then concentric circles and the meridians equally spaced radii

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Conic Projection

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n.
A method of projecting maps of parts of the earth's spherical surface on a surrounding cone, which is then flattened to a plane surface having concentric circles as parallels of latitude and radiating lines from the apex as meridians.

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