Definitions for cartography

cartography car·tog·ra·phy

Spelling: [kahr-tog-ruh-fee]
IPA: /kɑrˈtɒg rə fi/

Cartography is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 537 anagrams from letters in cartography (aacghoprrty).

Definitions for cartography

noun

  1. the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.

Origin of cartography

1855-60; Latin c(h)art(a) carte + -o- + -graphy

Examples for cartography

This is how I came to enter the studio devoted to the cartography of Northern Africa.

Scarcely any specimens of ancient Egyptian cartography have survived.

We were obliged to limit our cartography to languages alone.

The wonderful delicacy of Norden's work makes these maps peculiarly appreciated by students of London cartography.

Hitherto the Ptolemaic cartography had exerted an overpowering influence.

We come now to two significant maps in the early history of American cartography.

cartography, kar-tog′ra-fi, n. the art of preparing charts or maps.

Cassini was right in saying that cartography was no longer at its height as a science.

Only two specimens of Roman cartography have come down to us, viz.

He became a high authority on early American cartography and the history of the period of exploration.

Word Value for cartography
Scrable

22

Words with friends

23

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