polyconic projection

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   a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe

   Broaderconic projection

Questions about polyconic projection

What does polyconic projection mean?

polyconic projection means "a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe".

Is polyconic projection a common word?

polyconic 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.