cartography
noun
the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
cartographical
-
a word derived from
cartography.
Example Sentences
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The resulting pictorial space is complicated and suggestive: simultaneously cartographical, microscopic and celestial.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
What follows will be a cartographical examination of marriage, sorrow and madness as carefully plotted as the map the novel begins with.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Sometimes I spend 10 minutes pottering around; other times it’s four hours of intense, self-directed cartographical research missions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2020
We meet a whole cast of cartographical characters, including guesswork surveyors, unreliable navigators and sticky-fingered fraudsters.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2013
The westward Movement: the Colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1673-98; with full cartographical Illustrations from contemporary Sources.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
