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noun

(modifier) (of a map projection) showing area accurately and therefore distorting shape and directionAlso: homolographic

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Words nearby equal-area

EQ, EQC, eqpt., equable, equal, equal-area, equal-area projection, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, equali, equalitarian, equality

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How to use equal-area in a sentence

In winter, however, a scratching-shed of equal area is desirable.8 It need not be higher than three feet.
Making a Poultry House|Mary Roberts Conover
The irrigated West can sustain a population as great as that sustained on an equal area in the East, or even greater.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899|Various
This greatly increases the efficiency of the rudder as compared with a plane surface of equal area.
A History of Aeronautics|E. Charles Vivian
The number of distinct species of indigenous plants found upon it is greater than for any other equal area on the globe.
Up To Date Business|Various

I have shown elsewhere, as stated, how to make a square and equilateral triangle of equal area.
Amusements in Mathematics|Henry Ernest Dudeney