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Definition of Sinusoidal projection

1. Noun. An equal-area map projection showing parallels and the equator as straight lines and other meridians as curved; used to map tropical latitudes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinusoidal Projection

Literary usage of Sinusoidal projection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents by Athelstan Spilhaus (1991)
"However, the map on page 42 of the Album shows an "oblique sinusoidal projection," although the center of the projection is, indeed, on the equator. ..."

2. Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries Showing Oceans, Continents by Athelstan Spilhaus (1991)
"The sinusoidal projection has the unique property that both meridians and parallels are equally spaced along the Equator and along the central meridian. ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"... scale of the plane-table survey and laid down on a sinusoidal projection, fixing one end at ..."

4. Text Book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying by Charles Frederick Arden-Close (1905)
"Signs for latitudes, longitudes and reverse azimuths, Table 11., 222. Signals, trigonometrical, 10. ,, for traverses, 35. .sinusoidal projection, 97, 102. ..."

5. Transactions (1910)
"Rotative vector and sinusoidal projection. Isometric projection. XO Y plane of rotation, PP P' P' plane of projection. ..."

6. Theoretical and Practical Graphics: An Educational Course on the Theory and ...by Frederick Newton Willson by Frederick Newton Willson (1898)
"sinusoidal projection of sphere, 563. Sketching from measurement, 23-25. Skew arch, corne de vache form, 361. Space figure, defined, ,. ..."

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