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chartography

/ kɑːˈtɒɡrəfɪ, ˌkɑːtəˈɡræfɪk /

noun

  1. rare,  a variant spelling of cartography

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Word Forms

  • chartographically adverb
  • chartographer noun
  • chartographic adjective
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Example Sentences

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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.

I had frequent opportunities to observe these Eskimo ideas of chartography.

This topographical map, one yard high and divided into four parts, is a masterpiece of lunar chartography.

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