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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">The correspondence between a domain of the earth's surface and a plane surface (map)  such that each point on one corresponds to one and only one point on the other.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Typical projections used on [[weather charts]] include [[stereographic]], [[Lambert conic]], and [[Mercator]].</div><br/></div>
<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">The correspondence between a domain of the earth's surface and a plane surface (map)  such that each point on one corresponds to one and only one point on the other.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Typical projections used on [[weather charts]] include [[stereographic projection|stereographic]], [[Lambert conic projection|Lambert conic]], and [[Mercator  projection|Mercator]].</div><br/></div>
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projection

The correspondence between a domain of the earth's surface and a plane surface (map) such that each point on one corresponds to one and only one point on the other.

Typical projections used on weather charts include stereographic, Lambert conic, and Mercator.


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