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CARTOGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cartography mean?
• CARTOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun CARTOGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. the making of maps and charts
Familiarity information: CARTOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The making of maps and charts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
cartography; mapmaking
Hypernyms ("cartography" is a kind of...):
devising; fashioning; making (the act that results in something coming to be)
Derivation:
cartographer (a person who makes maps)
cartographical (of or relating to the making of maps or charts)
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