Azimuthal

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the azimuth; used in taking azimuths.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
  • adjective. of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
  • adjective. Describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point (or in some cases two points).
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  • adjective. of or relating to or in azimuth
  • Word Usage
    "The globe is depicted in what geographers call the azimuthal equidistant projection, which serves the politically correct purpose of taking in all six inhabited continents."
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