Associations to the word «Mercator»
Wiktionary
MERCATOR, noun. (chiefly attributive) Pertaining to an orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.
MERCATOR, noun. Such a projection or chart.
Dictionary definition
MERCATOR, noun. Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.