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Definition of Conical projection
1. Noun. A map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles.
Generic synonyms: Map Projection
Specialized synonyms: Polyconic Projection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conical Projection
Literary usage of Conical projection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"This ordinary conical projection, in which the central parallel and the distances
... The second modification of the conical projection which is also ..."
2. An Introduction to the Ancient and Modern Geometry of Conics: Being a by Charles Taylor (1881)
"Either figure is then said to be the Central or conical projection of the other
on the plane of the former, the point 0 being called the Vertex or the ..."
3. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"A conical projection of Europe (fig. 2) is constructed Fig. 2.—conical projection
of Europe. thus : Draw a base line AB of indefinite length ; bisect it in ..."
4. Principles of Human Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Sumner W. Cushing (1922)
"The conical projection is made by placing a conical map sheet so that it touches the
... Maps of small areas are usually made on the conical projection, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"This system is sometimes called conical projection, as distinguished from orthographic
... In the first method, which is that of direct conical projection, ..."
6. A Course of Plane Geometry for Advanced Students by Clement Vavasor Durell (1910)
"conical projection. THE idea of conical projection is first found, in an elementary
form, in the writings of Serenus (circa 450 AD). ..."
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