MERCATOR

Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerhard Kremer

(noun) Flemish geographer who lived in Germany; he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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Coffee Trivia

In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.

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