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Webster 1913 Edition

Cartography

Car-tog′ra-phy

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

cartographie

. See

, and

.]

The art or business of forming charts or maps.

Definition 2024

cartography

cartography

English

Noun

cartography ‎(usually uncountable, plural cartographies)

(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]
(countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic. [from 20th c.]

Translations

creation of charts and maps

Arabic: عِلْم اَلْخَرَائِط m ‎(ʿilm al-ḵarāʾiṭ)
Catalan: cartografia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地圖學 (zh), 地图学 (zh) ‎(dìtúxué), 製圖學, 制图学 ‎(zhìtúxué)
Czech: kartografie (cs) f
Esperanto: kartografio
Finnish: kartografia (fi)
French: cartographie (fr) f
Galician: cartografía (gl) f
German: Kartographie (de) f, Kartografie f
Hebrew: קרטוגרפיה (he) f ‎(qart'ografia)
Hungarian: térképészet (hu)
Ido: kartografio (io)
Italian: cartografia (it) f

Japanese: 地図学 ‎(ちずがく, chizugaku)
Korean: 지도학 ‎(jidohak)
Latvian: kartogrāfija f
Macedonian: картографија f ‎(kartográfija)
Norwegian: kartografi (no) m
Polish: kartografia (pl) f
Portuguese: cartografia (pt) f
Romanian: cartografie (ro), cartografiere (ro) f
Russian: картогра́фия (ru) f ‎(kartográfija)
Spanish: cartografía (es) f
Swedish: kartografi (sv) c
Turkish: haritacılık (tr), kartografi (tr)
Vietnamese: bản đồ học

illustrative discussion of a topic

Chinese:
Mandarin:

Finnish: kartoitus (fi)
Russian:

Synonyms

cartology

Derived terms