Mercator是什么意思？

Mercator

• 墨卡托(Gerhardus,1512-1594，佛兰德Flanders 的地理学家，地图制作家)；

例句

• We improved arithmetics of Mercator mapping transform and inverse transform. 改进了墨卡托变换与逆变换算法.
• The mercator projection is one of the most used world map projection. 麦卡托式是最常用的世界地图投影法.
• Mercator might be used by a geologist mapping current directions in Palaeozoic sediment. 地质学家可用麦卡托投影来绘制古生界沉积中的水流方向.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)