stereographic projection (English, noun)
expansion: stereographic projection (plural stereographic projections)
Senses:
topics: cartography
complex-analysis
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: projective geometry
glosses: A function that maps a sphere onto a plane; especially, the map generated by projecting each point of the sphere from the sphere's (designated) north pole to a point on the plane tangent to the south pole.
Forms:
form: stereographic projections
tags: plural