representative fraction
Cartography
noun
The ratio of a distance on a map to the distance it represents on the ground; abbreviated R.F.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- substitute teaching
- substitution
- substitutional
- substitutionally
- substitutional service
- substitutionary
- substitution frame
- substitution group
- substitution pupillary
- substitutive
- substitutively
- substitutivity
- substitutor
- substitutory
- marbler
- marbles-player
- marble-top
- marble-topped
- marble town
- marblette
- marble veal
- marblewood
- marbling
- marbling comb
- marbling fat