Eckert projection

noun

Eckert projection

noun

Etymology Devised by Max Eckert-Greifendorff, who presented them in 1906.

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Cartography, Geography, Natural sciences Any of six related pseudocylindrical map projections having the latitudes as parallel lines, and distinguished by the shapes of the meridians.

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