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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594);
[syn: Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mercator n 1: Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594) [syn: Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer]