polyconic projection

pol·y·con·ic projection Audio Help (pŏl'ē-kŏn'ĭk)

n. A conic map projection having distances between meridians along every parallel equal to those distances on a globe. The central geographic meridian is a straight line, whereas the others are curved and the parallels are arcs of circles.

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