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HOMOLOSINE PROJECTION

Dictionary entry overview: What does homolosine projection mean?

• HOMOLOSINE PROJECTION (noun)
The noun HOMOLOSINE PROJECTION has 1 sense:

1. an equal-area projection map of the globe; oceans are distorted in order to minimize the distortion of the continents

Familiarity information: HOMOLOSINE PROJECTION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HOMOLOSINE PROJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An equal-area projection map of the globe; oceans are distorted in order to minimize the distortion of the continents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("homolosine projection" is a kind of...):

equal-area map projection; equal-area projection (a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe)

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