The name given to the protracted curves of the variation of the compass, known as the variation chart.
·noun A written deed; a charter. II. Chart ·vt To lay down in a chart; to <<Map>>; to <<Delineate>>...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, or sea-chart A hydrographical map, or a projection of some part of the earth's superficies in pl...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- ·see under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under <<Projection>>. ...
·- A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, ·etc., are delineated. ...
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Introduced by Gerard Mercator, circa 1556: it is a projection of the surface of the earth in the pla...
One constructed on the supposition of the earth's being an extended plane, and therefore but little ...
The well-known chart produced by Halley, whereon a number of curved lines show the variation of the ...