| 单词 | reduced chart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreduced chart reduced chart n. now historical a chart on which lines of latitude or longitude are represented as straight lines. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Chart Reduced Chart..is that wherein the Meridians are represented by right Lines converging towards the Poles; and the Parallels by right Lines parallel to one another, but unequal... Another kind of Reduced Charts has been invented, wherein the Meridians are parallel, but the Degrees thereof unequal; call'd Mercator's Charts. 1777 R. Waddington Epitome Theoret. & Pract. Navigation xiv. 87 The reduced chart is greatly prefererable to Mercator's,..for it is delineated in such a manner as to have the bearings and distances of places nearly true. 1859 G. Meade Rep. Surv. North End Northwest Lakes 3 Part of the reduced chart of Maumee bay. 1940 Geogr. Rev. 30 538 Smyley was certainly using an erroneous map, perhaps Isaac Purdy's ‘Reduced Chart of the Ethiopic or Southern Atlantic Ocean,’ published in 1840. < as lemmas |
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