# Eckert projection

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Any of six related pseudocylindrical map projections having the latitudes as parallel lines, and distinguished by the shapes of the meridians.

## Etymology
Devised by Max Eckert-Greifendorff, who presented them in 1906.

## Source
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