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POLYCONIC PROJECTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("polyconic projection" is a kind of...):
conic projection; conical projection (a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles)