CONICAL PROJECTION
Dictionary entry overview: What does conical projection mean? • CONICAL PROJECTION (noun)
The noun CONICAL PROJECTION has 1 sense:
1. a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles
Familiarity information: CONICAL PROJECTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CONICAL PROJECTION (noun)
Meaning:
A map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
conic projection; conical projection
Hypernyms ("conical projection" is a kind of...):
map projection (a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conical projection"):
polyconic projection (a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distance on a globe)
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