cartography

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Maps: This cartography is thoroughly impressive and incredibly detailed

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  • "You will manage to do it now, or take some very unpleasant consequences Doc Savage said nothing With your exhaustive knowledge of geology and cartography, my dear Savage, it should not be too difficult for you to locate an object which I shall describe as having an atomic structure entirely different from the rest of the island," the whiskered man said The count raised his napkin and blotted his thin lips. —  034 - The Fantastic Island
  • Several com-beacon signals appeared on the emerging cartography, the only indication of activity on this bygone world. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
  • Italian cartography was severe; French, light and almost witty; Dutch, meticulous and comfortable; and the bounciness of the Elizabethan era is a remarkable contrast to the solidity of prosperous Victorianism. —  AUGUST, 1953 VOL
  • It revealed an extremely accurate piece of cartography, made decorative by an ornamental compass and a baroquely framed title. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
  • She warmed right up to the new biochem lab, but she's being positively cranky about the new stellar-cartography equipment. —  Star Trek - DS9 - Section 31 book 3 - Abyss
 

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  1. French cartographie : carte, map (from Old French, from Latin charta, carta, paper made from papyrus; see card1) + -graphie, writing (from Greek graphiā; see -graphy).
 

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/kɑrˈtɑgrəfi/
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