| 单词 |
homalographic |
| 释义 |
homalographic, a.|ˌhɒmələʊˈgræfɪk|
(erron. homolo-, though usual in sense 1.)
[f. Gr. ὁµαλός (see prec.) + graphic: cf. F. homalographique.]
1. Geog. Delineating in equal proportion; applied to a method of projection in which equal areas on the earth's surface are represented by equal areas on the map or chart.
1864Webster, Homolographic projection. 1866Proctor Handbk. Stars 22 The problem proposed by Babinet, and solved by Cauchy, of the homolographic (or, as I prefer to call it, the equigraphic) projection of maps; that is of the construction of maps in which all areas shall be correctly given. 1866― in Intell. Observ. No. 54. 429 The homolographic projection of the globe. 1921Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Oct. 646/3 This map of the Pacific, on Mollweide's homolographic projection. 1937Geogr. Jrnl. XC. 569 Equal-area projections being desirable for distribution maps, a modification of Goode's Homolographic projection—called by the compilers the ‘Interrupted Mollweide's Homolographic’—is employed.
2. Anat. (See quot. 1886.)
1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Homalographic method, Le Gendre's name for a mode of exhibiting or representing the anatomical structures by making plane sections, if possible, on a frozen body. 1889J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Wom. xxx. (ed. 4) 250 He has shewn it in a homalographic section made on a woman recently delivered.
Hence ˌhomaloˈgraphically adv.
1969N. R. Hanson Perception & Discov. xix. 325 We never see it sinusoidally, orthogonally, or homolographically, we just represent that world this way. |
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