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transverse Mercator projection

Mercator projection whose cylinder touches the globe along a meridian, conformal and little distorted near that meridian.

projection de Mercator transverse

aussi : projection transverse de Mercator

Projection de Mercator dont le cylindre touche le globe le long d'un méridien, conforme et peu déformée près de ce méridien.

Base du système UTM (« transverse universelle de Mercator »).

Classification

map
the name evokes: eponym

Attestation

French term: Common usage, not attested by a source
English definition: Cartography: thematic map design

Sources (3)

13 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/transverse-mercator-projection.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. transverse Mercator projection. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/transverse-mercator-projection.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-transverse-mercator-projection,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {transverse Mercator projection},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/transverse-mercator-projection.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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