Definitions for mercator projection
mer·ca·tor pro·jec·tion

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1. Mercator projection, Mercator's projectionnoun

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

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1. Mercator projection

   The Mercator projection () is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes. The map is thereby conformal. As a side effect, the Mercator projection inflates the size of objects away from the equator. This inflation is very small near the equator but accelerates with increasing latitude to become infinite at the poles. As a result, landmasses such as Greenland, Antarctica, Canada and Russia appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses near the equator, such as Central Africa.

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1. mercator projection

   The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It is a method of projecting the sphere of Earth onto a flat surface, turning latitude and longitude lines into a grid-like pattern where the lines are straight and parallel to each other. However, it distorts the size and shape of large objects, making them appear larger the further away they are from the equator. This projection is particularly useful for navigational purposes as it maintains accurate direction.

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1. Mercator projection

   The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments which conserve the angles with the meridians. While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects, the Mercator projection distorts the size and shape of large objects, as the scale increases from the Equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mercator projection in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mercator projection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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