| 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). <  | 
	
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