cartography
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- cartograph noun
- cartographer noun
- cartographic adjective
- cartographical adjective
- cartographically adverb
Etymology
Origin of cartography
Example Sentences
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Each year, she sits on the jury for a junior cartography competition organized in several French high schools.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Throughout the book, elements from a talking fish to a possibly reincarnated dog exist alongside the bleak reality of a country so downtrodden and occupied that even its cartography isn’t in its own language.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Leanne Abraham is a graphics editor at The Times with a focus on cartography and data visualization.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2023
The Seattle-based cartography company turns 50 this year, providing proof as clear as the compass rose that the hard-copy map is not going the way of the phone book.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023
Cicero thought cartography was a branch of geometry, but the Renaissance developed a whole range of new mathematical disciplines and demonstrated their power to make sense of the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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