Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

map projection

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: map pro-jec-tion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any systematic method of transforming the spherical representation of parallels, meridians and geographic features of the Earth's surface to a nonspherical surface, usually a plane.

Inflected Forms

map projections (plural)

Questions

What does map projection mean?: Any systematic method of transforming the spherical representation of parallels, meridians and geographic features of the Earth's surface to a nonspherical surface, usually a plane.

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