Before revision: thumb | 400px | center | The gores of Waldseemüller's 1507 globe of the world, the first to use the name "America" (at right) A gore is a sector of a curved surface Chambers English Dictionary (1988) or the curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe and may be flattened to a plane surface with little distortion.
After revision: The gores of Waldseemüller's 1507 globe of the world, the first to use the name "America" (at right) A gore is a sector of a curved surface Chambers English Dictionary (1988) or the curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe and may be flattened to a plane surface with little distortion.