The profile, or representation of a vertical section, of a work in fortification.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The act of throwing or shooting forward. II. Projection ·noun Any method of representing the ...
A method of representing geometrically on a plane surface varied points, lines, and surfaces not lyi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Introduced by Gerard Mercator, circa 1556: it is a projection of the surface of the earth in the pla...