单词 | homalographic |
释义 | homalographicadj. 1. Cartography. Designating a method of projection in which equal areas on the earth's surface are represented by equal areas on a map or chart; (of a map or chart) produced using such a method. Cf. equal-area adj. at equal adj., n., and adv. Compounds 3.Although there are several kinds of equal-area projection, the term homalographic is associated esp. with Mollweide's projection (see Mollweide projection at Mollweide n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [adjective] > types of projection Mercatorial1734 homalographic1855 polyconic1857 isographic1872 orthomorphic1879 1855 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1854 ii. 2 Prof. Wilson then, on the part of the Abbé Moigno, presented and explained Babinet's Homalographic Maps. 1857 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 27 p. lxiv Babinet, J.—Universal Atlas of Geography on the Homolographic projection of the Sphere. 4to. pamphlet. Paris, 1854. 1866 R. A. Proctor Handbk. Stars 22 The problem proposed by Babinet, and solved by Cauchy, of the homolographic (or, as I prefer to call it, the equigraphic) projection of maps. 1921 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Oct. 646/3 This map of the Pacific, on Mollweide's homolographic projection. 1947 H. D. Thompson Fund. Earth Sci. v. 52 Mollweide's Homalographic equal-area projection (1805) shows the entire surface of the earth inside an ellipse, the major..axis of which is twice as long as the minor axis. 2000 J. N. Wilford Mapmakers (2002) vi. 92 Another major class of maps is called equal-area. Other names for it are equivalent and homolographic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [adjective] > dissection anatomist1569 anatomical1594 anatomic1712 homalographic1860 necrotomical1895 1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) Index 511 Le Gendre, homolographic surgical anatomy. 1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Homalographic method, Le Gendre's name for a mode of exhibiting or representing the anatomical structures by making plane sections, if possible, on a frozen body. 1886 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 3) xxvii. 245 He has shown it in a homalographic section, made on a woman recently delivered. 1893 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. 27 350 Light has also been thrown upon the subject in the confirmatory anatomical studies of Hart and Carter by means of homolographic frozen sections. Derivatives ˌhomaloˈgraphically adv. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [adverb] > type of projection homalographically1969 1969 N. R. Hanson Perception & Discov. xix. 325 We never see it sinusoidally, orthogonally, or homolographically, we just represent that world this way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1855 |
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