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Mercator meaning
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.
Synonyms of Mercator
Using Mercator
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: gerardus mercator, gerhard kremer, geographer.
- In the example corpus, mercator often appears in combinations such as: mercator projection, the mercator, transverse mercator.
Context around Mercator
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mercator
- In this selection, "mercator" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, transverse, gerardus, return, projection, map and institute stand out and add context to how "mercator" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cylindrical mercator projection and a mercator map can. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mercator" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mercator
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Slovenia is trying to return Mercator to Slovenian ownership again. (10 words)
Cartographers had long despaired over publishers' inapt use of the Mercator. (11 words)
Cylindrical seeAlso The Mercator projection shows courses of constant bearing as straight lines. (13 words)
To be joined by such talented and influential industry leaders is a testament to the strength of our mission and the hard work of our team over the past 8 months,” said Chloe Smith, CEO and Co-founder of Mercator AI. (41 words)
A Mercator map can therefore never fully show the polar areas (as long as the projection is based on a cylinder centered on the Earth’s rotation axis; see the Transverse Mercator projection for another application). (36 words)
Inappropriate use of the Mercator projection in world maps and the size disparities figuring prominently in Peters's arguments against the Mercator projection had been remarked upon for centuries and quite commonly in the 20th century. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Mercator map can therefore never fully show the polar areas (as long as the projection is based on a cylinder centered on the Earth’s rotation axis; see the Transverse Mercator projection for another application).
Inappropriate use of the Mercator projection in world maps and the size disparities figuring prominently in Peters's arguments against the Mercator projection had been remarked upon for centuries and quite commonly in the 20th century.
That page contains details of the map and translations of the texts The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.
To be joined by such talented and influential industry leaders is a testament to the strength of our mission and the hard work of our team over the past 8 months,” said Chloe Smith, CEO and Co-founder of Mercator AI.
Slovenia is trying to return Mercator to Slovenian ownership again.
The Berlin-based Mercator Institute for China Studies remains one of the few think tanks in the world that specializes in China, but there are still far too few China experts in Europe.
To address the larger situation, Mercator also said it is in talks with lenders to restructure long-term debt.
The bodies include the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Mercator Institute for China Studies and the Global Public Policy Institute.
Arno Peters stirred controversy when he proposed what is now usually called the Gall–Peters projection as the alternative to the Mercator.
At latitudes greater than 70° north or south the Mercator projection is practically unusable, since the linear scale becomes infinitely high at the poles.
Because the linear scale of a Mercator map increases with latitude, it distorts the size of geographical objects far from the equator and conveys a distorted perception of the overall geometry of the planet.
Cartographers had long despaired over publishers' inapt use of the Mercator.
Croatia's Agrocor has intentions of buying Mercator, however since the middle of 2013 and up until now the purchase was unsuccessful.
Cylindrical seeAlso The Mercator projection shows courses of constant bearing as straight lines.
Distortion main Tissot's Indicatrices on the Mercator projection The classical way of showing the distortion inherent in a projection is to use Tissot's indicatrix.
Even Peters's politicized interpretation of the common use of Mercator was nothing new, with Kelloway's 1946 text mentioning a similar controversy.
For example, the 'exact' version of the Transverse Mercator projection on the ellipsoid is not a double projection.
From antiquity, the Chinese used an equatorial system for describing the skies and a star map from 940 was drawn using a cylindrical ( Mercator ) projection.
However, despite such distortions, Mercator projection was, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, perhaps the most common projection used in world maps, but in this use, it has much been criticized.
If these sheets were brought to the same scale and assembled an approximation of the Mercator projection would be obtained (1537).
Common combinations with mercator
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: