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equal-area

a. (context cartography English) Of a map, having the property that equal areas on the map represent equal areas on the mapped surface.

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Equal-area

Equal-area may refer to:

  • Map projection#Equal-area
  • Equiareal map
  • 2_×_2_real_matrices#Equi-areal_mapping

Usage examples of "equal-area".

The colonel was going to have to reinvent airplane-type instrument flying, and his principal visual information would come not from gyro-referenced attitude sensors or radar displays but from a full-sphere screen distorting its picture into a Mollweide equal-area projection.