conical projection

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsconic projection

   Broadermap projection

   Narrowerpolyconic projection

Questions about conical projection

What does conical projection mean?

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

What is another word for conical projection?

Close synonyms include conic projection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conical projection a common word?

conical projection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.