English Explanatory Dictionary

Eckert projection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of six related pseudocylindrical map projections having the latitudes as parallel lines, and distinguished by the shapes of the meridians.

Word forms

Eckert projection Eckert projections

Etymology

Devised by Max Eckert-Greifendorff, who presented them in 1906.

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