mercator projection

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsMercator's projection

   Broadermap projection

Questions about mercator projection

What does mercator projection mean?

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

What is another word for mercator projection?

Close synonyms include Mercator's 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 mercator projection a common word?

mercator 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.