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transverse Mercator projection

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  1. [map projections] A conformal cylindrical projection—invented by Swiss polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772—that rotates the Mercator projection 90 degrees so that the line of tangency is a pair of meridians. Similar to the Gauss-Krüger projection.

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