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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A composite of two map projections designed to represent area proportionally to the area on the earth's surface and represent true shapes of continents. Homolosine projections of the earth are usually interrupted in ocean areas.
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- noun an equal-area projection map of the globe; oceans are distorted in order to minimize the distortion of the continents
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[homolo(graphic) + sine.]
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