Usually means: Map projecting sphere onto plane.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. planisphere: Merriam-Webster
  2. planisphere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. planisphere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. planisphere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Planisphere, planisphere: Wordnik
  6. planisphere: Wiktionary
  7. planisphere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. planisphere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. planisphere: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Planisphere, planisphere: Dictionary.com
  11. Planisphere (book), Planisphere (poetry collection), Planisphere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Planisphere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. planisphere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Planisphere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. planisphere: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. planisphere: FreeDictionary.org
  17. planisphere: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. planisphere: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. planisphere: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. planisphere: A Word A Day

(Note: See planispheric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (planisphere)

noun:  Any representation (map projection) of part of a sphere on a plane surface.
noun:  A map constructed by stereographic projection, as described in Ptolemy's treatise Planisphaerium and later used in planispheric astrolabes
noun:  A map of the whole world, especially those from the 16th–17th century
noun:  (astronomy) Any of several charts of the celestial sphere having an overlay or window that may be adjusted to show the stars visible at a particular time, or from a particular place.

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