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Mercator projection

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  1. [map projections] A tangent-case cylindrical conformal projection; the only projection on which all rhumb lines are straight lines on the map. Named for Flemish geographer and cartographer Geert de Kremer (Gerardus Mercator) (1512–1594).

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