Usually means: Map projection distorting size, shape.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word Mercator:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mercator: Merriam-Webster
  2. Mercator: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Mercator: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mercator, mercator: Wordnik
  5. Mercator: Wiktionary
  6. Mercator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Mercator: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Mercator: Dictionary.com
  9. Mercator: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Mercator (company), Mercator (play), Mercator (retail), Mercator (ship), Mercator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Mercator: Rhymezone
  12. mercator: FreeDictionary.org
  13. mercator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Mercator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Mercator: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mercator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MERCATOR: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MERCATOR, MERCATOR, MERCATOR: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mercator)

noun:  (chiefly attributive) An orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.

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