chartography
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- chartographer noun
- chartographic adjective
- chartographically adverb
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A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost; would have illumined the one dark alley in my school life.
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I had frequent opportunities to observe these Eskimo ideas of chartography.
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This topographical map, one yard high and divided into four parts, is a masterpiece of lunar chartography.
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