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Mercator projection

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Mercator projection/mɜːˈkeɪtəprəʤekʃn/

▶noun a world map projection made on to a cylinder in such a way that all parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator.

– origin from Mercator, Latinized name of the 16th-cent. Flemish geographer Gerhard Kremer.

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