Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mercator's_projection

1 sense of mercator's projection

Sense 1
Mercator projection, Mercator's projection -- (a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder; areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator)
       => map projection -- (a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude)