Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stereographic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stereographic \Ste`re*o*graph"ic\, Stereographical
\Ste`re*o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. st['e]r['e]ographique.]
Made or done according to the rules of stereography;
delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the
earth.
{Stereographic projection} (Geom.), a method of representing
the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in
the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the
projection is made is at right andles to the diameter
passing through the center of projection.
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.