cartographic
- adjective
- /ˌkɑːrtəˈɡræfɪk/
- Specialized
- The cartographic designs in the atlas were beautifully detailed and easy to read.
- cartographic representation
- cartographic resources
- cartographic materials
Examples
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Throughout the centuries, mapmakers have sought interpretive cartographic solutions to ambiguities in biblical geography (Laor 1986).
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I would argue that a state's stamp program has goals that are similar to its cartographic effort.
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The author found no reference to the Union County map in a wide survey of cartographic collections.
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Currently, historical celestial cartographic resources are still used for research.
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Map algebra was used to transform the original cartographic data into the final variables (Figure 3).
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For pictorial and cartographic information, resolution decreases as scope increases and as scale becomes smaller.
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The last parameter corresponds to one of the most frequently used bits of data used for cartographic materials: coordinates.
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Morse describes how cartographic materials and sheet maps fit into the entity-relationship model of FRBR.
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Wilbur was practically in a state of perpetual giddiness thinking about the cartographic presentation of cultural ephemera.
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Such shifts and translations parallel the physical and conceptual transformations of landscape into cartographic representations or maps.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
About making or studying maps
Surface Forms
Morphology
cartographic = cartography (transparent) = cartography + ic
Clearly formed from the noun 'cartography' plus the adjectival suffix '-ic', so the meaning 'relating to mapmaking' is directly derived.
Etymology
Cartographic comes from the part carto-, which means 'map' (think of chart), and the part -graphic, which means 'to draw or write', like in graphic. So cartographic describes the drawing or making of maps.