CONICAL PROJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conical projection mean? 

• CONICAL PROJECTION (noun)
  The noun CONICAL PROJECTION has 1 sense:

1. a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles

  Familiarity information: CONICAL PROJECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONICAL PROJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

conic projection; conical projection

Hypernyms ("conical projection" is a kind of...):

map projection (a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conical projection"):

polyconic projection (a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe)