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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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Latest revision as of 16:40, 25 April 2012
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.