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Words related to mercator

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  • mercator sailing

    sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.

  • mercator track

    a line appearing straight on a Mercator chart; rhumb line.

  • great-circle track

    the route of a ship following the arc of a great circle, appearing as a curved line on a Mercator chart and as a straight line on a gnomonic chart.

  • mercator projection

    a conformal projection on which any rhumb line is represented as a straight line, used chiefly in navigation, though the scale varies with latitude and areal size and the shapes of large areas are greatly distorted.
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