Associations to the word «Gnomonic»
Wiktionary
GNOMONIC, adjective. (cartography) Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations.
GNOMONIC PROJECTION, noun. (cartography) A mapping projection in which all great circle paths (on a sphere the shortest path between points) are shown as straight lines.
Wise words
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing
them for the first time.