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mercator

/mɜːˈkeɪ.tə/

الترجمة: اسم علم يشير إلى الجغرافي والرسّام الخرائطي الفلمندي غيراردوس مركاتور الذي عاش في ألمانيا واشتهر بابتكار إسقاط مركاتور لخرائط العالم.

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noun

C1formalcommonscientific/mɜːˈkeɪ.tə/

غير معدود · اسم علم

A proper noun referring to a Flemish geographer and cartographer who lived in Germany and is known for inventing the Mercator projection of maps of the globe.

  • 🌐اسم علم يشير إلى الجغرافي والرسّام الخرائطي الفلمندي غيراردوس مركاتور الذي عاش في ألمانيا واشتهر بابتكار إسقاط مركاتور لخرائط العالم.
  1. Flemish cartographer C1 formal

    A 16th-century Flemish geographer and cartographer known for creating the Mercator projection, a map projection that represents rhumb lines as straight lines, aiding navigation.

    • Mercator's world map from 1569 revolutionized maritime navigation.
    • The University of Leuven educated many geographers, including Mercator.
    • Historians study Mercator's work to understand early modern cartography.

    🌐رسام الخرائط الفلمنكي

  2. Map projection B2 formal technical

    A cylindrical map projection developed by Gerardus Mercator, where lines of longitude and latitude are represented as straight lines, preserving angles but distorting area at high latitudes.

    • The Mercator projection is commonly used for nautical charts.
    • Google Maps uses the Web Mercator projection for its tiles.
    • One drawback of the Mercator projection is the distortion of Greenland's size.

    🌐إسقاط مركاتور