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  1. [cartography, map design] A rectangle—aligned with the coordinate axes and placed on a map display—that encompasses a geographic feature, group of features, or an area of interest. It is defined by minimum and maximum coordinates in the x and y directions and is used to represent, in a general way, the location of a geographic area.

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