conic projection

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A method of projecting maps of parts of the earth's spherical surface on a surrounding cone, which is then flattened to a plane surface having concentric circles as parallels of latitude and radiating lines from the apex as meridians.

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• noun a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles