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homolosine projection

ho·mol·o·sine pro·jec·tion [ hō mòllə sīn prə jékshən ] (plural ho·mol·o·sine pro·jec·tions)


noun 
Definition:
 
representation of earth's surface: a map of the Earth's surface that distorts the oceans in order to represent the continents with a minimum of distortion

[<homolographic + sine, because it is a homolographic projection based on sinusoidal curves]
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