cartography

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Cartography

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χάρτης (khartēs, “sheet of paper”) + γράφω (graphō, “write”).

Noun

cartography (usually uncountable; plural cartographies)

  1. (uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography.
  2. (countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic.

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