the art or work of making maps or charts
Origin of cartography
from Medieval Latin carta (see card) + -graphy
Cartography is map making.
The definition of cartography is the making of maps or charts.
An example of cartography is making an updated map of the world.
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cartography
noun
The art or technique of making maps or charts.
Origin of cartography
French cartographie carte map ( from Old French) ( from Latin charta, carta paper made from papyrus ; see card 1. ) -graphie writing ( from Greek -graphiā ; see -graphy . )Related Forms:
- car·tog′ra·pher
noun
- car′to·graph′ic car′to·graph′i·cal
adjective
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The art or technique of making maps or charts.
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural cartographies)
- (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]
- (countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic. [from 20th c.]
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Sentence Examples
- He introduced a new standard of accuracy in the cartography of ancient Greece.
- Only two specimens of Roman cartography have come down to us, viz.
- Scarcely any specimens of ancient Egyptian cartography have survived.
- The science of geodesy is part of mathematical geography, of which the arts of surveying and cartography are applications.
- Chambers's West Florida and its Relation to the Historical Cartography of the United States (Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series 16, No.
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