Mercator Definition

mərkātər
noun

(chiefly ) Pertaining to an orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.

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Such a projection or chart.

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Synonyms:
  • Gerhard Kremer
  • Gerardus Mercator

Origin of Mercator

  • Latinized name of Gerard de Cremer, Flemish cartographer and mathematician.

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Mercator Sentence Examples

  • The latter view prevailed and was as a rule held by the Arab geographers of the middle ages, so that until the discovery of America and of the Pacific Ocean the belief was general that the land surface was greater than the water surface, or that at least the two were equal, as Mercator and Varenius held.

  • Lastly, a collection of maps is called an atlas, after the figure of Atlas, the Titan, supporting the heavens, which ornamented the title of Lafreri's and Mercator's atlases in the 16th century.

  • The indiscriminate use of Mercator's projection, for maps of the world, is to be deprecated owing to the inordinate exaggeration of areas in high latitudes.

  • Thus the distance between New York and Oporto, following the former (great circle sailing), amounts to 3000 m., while following the rhumb, as in Mercator sailing, it would amount to 3120 m.

  • Dulceti, 1339, and b, On Mercator's projection, according to modern maps.

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