conic projection

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noun Cartography.

a map projection based on the concept of projecting the earth's surface on a conical surface, which is then unrolled to a plane surface.

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Words nearby conic projection

conical, conical cornea, conical papilla, conical pendulum, conicoid, conic projection, conics, conic section, conidiophore, conidium, conifer

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How to use conic projection in a sentence

Oftentimes public fear like this can be a self-indulgent kind of collective astral projection.
The Real Nightmare of Ferguson|James Poulos|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most gun nuts have them less for self-protection than self-projection.
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I sat there in the projection booth and thought, “Oh my god, you could tell a story this way?”
Paul Haggis on Scientology, the ‘Crash’ Oscar, and ‘Third Person’|Kevin Fallon|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The walking-and-talking projection is estimated to have cost about $400,000 and took four months to complete.
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Although it is being called a hologram, it was actually a 2-D projection.
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It was round, with a small, rectangular projection for the operator's controls and calculator.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
In a moment her mind lost its tensity of projection and she was almost flying down her own long stair.
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They are brown, ovoid in shape, about 50 long, and have a button-like projection at each end (Fig. 101).
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At one o'clock we were near a low sandy projection round which the coast extends to the East-North-East and forms a shallow bay.
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The projection of land fixed upon for the site of a town, was named after the commandant (Captain Barlow).
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British Dictionary definitions for conic projection

conic projection

conical projection

noun

a map projection on which the earth is shown as projected onto a cone with its apex over one of the poles and with parallels of latitude radiating from this apex

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Scientific definitions for conic projection

conic projection

[ kŏn′ĭk ]

A map projection in which the surface features of a globe are depicted as if projected onto a cone typically positioned so as to rest on the globe along a parallel (a line of equal latitude). In flattened form a conic projection produces a roughly semicircular map with the area below the apex of the cone at its center. When the central point is either of Earth's poles, parallels appear as concentric arcs and meridians as straight lines radiating from the center. Distances along the meridians remain true to scale, while the distortion along the parallels is progressively greater moving away from the parallel on which the cone is assumed to rest. Conic projections centered over a pole are often used in regional or national maps of temperate zones, where the distortion in the middle latitudes (the resting point of the cone) is minimal. Compare azimuthal projection cylindrical projection.