Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun equal-area_projection

1 sense of equal-area projection

Sense 1
equal-area projection, equal-area map 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)
       => map projection -- (a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude)