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the Mercator chart

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  • mercator chart — |mər|kād.ər , merˈkäˌtȯ(ə)r noun Usage: usually capitalized M Etymology: after Gerhardus Mercator died 1594 Flemish geographer : a chart or map drawn on the Mercator projection …   Useful english dictionary

  • Mercator projection — of the world between 82°S and 82°N. Mercator world …   Wikipedia

  • Mercator's chart — Mer|ca|tor chart or Mercator s chart «mur KAY tuhr», a chart made according to Mercator projection: »A Mercator chart represents the meridians and parallels of latitude as straight lines …   Useful english dictionary

  • Mercator — /meuhr kay teuhr/; for 1 also Flem. /merdd kah tawrdd/, n. 1. Gerhardus /jeuhr hahr deuhs/, (Gerhard Kremer), 1512 94, Flemish cartographer and geographer. adj. 2. noting, pertaining to, or according to the principles of a Mercator projection: a… …   Universalium

  • Mercator's chart — Chart Chart (ch[aum]rt; k[aum]rt Obs.), n. [A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See {Card}, and cf. {Charter}.] 1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Chart — (ch[aum]rt; k[aum]rt Obs.), n. [A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See {Card}, and cf. {Charter}.] 1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • MERCATOR, Gerardus — (1512 1594) Gerardus Mercator, a transforming figure in the history of cartography, de­vised the projection that bears his name when he created his world map of 1569 that revolutionized both mapmaking and, by extension, the way people came to… …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

  • Mercator , Gerardus — (1512–1594) Dutch cartographer and geographer Mercator, originally named Kremer, was born at Rupelmonde, now in Belgium. At the University of Louvain (1530–32) he was a pupil of Gemma Frisius. After learning the basic skills of an instrument… …   Scientists

  • Mercator projection — Cartography. a conformal projection on which any rhumb line is represented as a straight line, used chiefly in navigation, though the scale varies with latitude and areal size and the shapes of large areas are greatly distorted. Also, Mercator s… …   Universalium

  • Mercator — noun /məːˈkeɪtə/ a) Pertaining to an orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator. we… …   Wiktionary

  • Nautical chart — A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a maritime area and adjacent coastal regions. Depending on the scale of the chart, it may show depths of water and heights of land (topographic map), natural features of the seabed, details of the… …   Wikipedia

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