Definitions

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

  • adjective Maintaining the ratio of parts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Maintaining or exhibiting the true proportions of parts; preserving true relative areas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion.
  • adjective a method of constructing geographical charts or maps, so that the surfaces, as delineated on a plane, have the same relative size as the real surfaces; that is, so that the relative actual areas of the different countries are accurately represented by the corresponding portions of the map.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective cartography Alternative spelling of homalographic.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek homalos, even; see sem- in Indo-European roots + graphic.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the Greek homalos or homo (same) and graphos (write).This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology."graphein", not "graphos" is to write; etymons should be in Greek script

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