Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sanson-flamsteed_projection

1 sense of sanson-flamsteed projection

Sense 1
sinusoidal projection, Sanson-Flamsteed projection -- (an equal-area map projection showing parallels and the equator as straight lines and other meridians as curved; used to map tropical latitudes)
       => 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)