Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Maintaining the ratio of parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Maintaining or exhibiting the true proportions of parts; preserving true relative areas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion.
- adjective a method of constructing geographical charts or maps, so that the surfaces, as delineated on a plane, have the same relative size as the real surfaces; that is, so that the relative actual areas of the different countries are accurately represented by the corresponding portions of the map.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective cartography Alternative spelling of
homalographic .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Your lust for exotic creatures like Peirce’s glorious Quincunx are matched only by your ability to end conversations and empty rooms with impromptu lectures on Mollweide’s wicked homolographic compromise.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Flatten the world 2010
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Your lust for exotic creatures like Peirce’s glorious Quincunx are matched only by your ability to end conversations and empty rooms with impromptu lectures on Mollweide’s wicked homolographic compromise.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Flatten the world 2010
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Your lust for exotic creatures like Peirce’s glorious Quincunx are matched only by your ability to end conversations and empty rooms with impromptu lectures on Mollweide’s wicked homolographic compromise.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Flatten the world 2010
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