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Mercatorian

Mercatorian adjective: of or relating to Gerardus Mercator, 16th-century Flemish cartographer who invented the Mercator projection.

Adjective

Mercatorian (comparative more Mercatorian, superlative most Mercatorian)

  1. Of or relating to Gerardus Mercator, 16th-century Flemish cartographer who invented the Mercator projection.

Forms of Mercatorian

comparativemore Mercatorian
superlativemost Mercatorian

Origin of Mercatorian

From Mercator + -ian.

Questions about Mercatorian

What does Mercatorian mean?
Mercatorian means of or relating to Gerardus Mercator, 16th-century Flemish cartographer who invented the Mercator projection.
What part of speech is Mercatorian?
Mercatorian is an adjective.

Words near Mercatorian in the dictionary

  1. mercatantes
  2. Mercator
  3. Mercator projection
  4. Mercator projections
  5. mercatorial
  6. Mercatorian
  7. mercatorism
  8. Mercators
  9. mercats
  10. mercature
  11. mercatures

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