Recent Examples on the WebThe original owner’s love of cartography influenced the design, so the home is organized around a long reflecting pool aligned due north.—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 July 2024 The show, hosted at UNESCO headquarters, featured cartography graphics and military berets, and pointed to travel, aviation, international diplomacy and a creative dialogue — notably through collaborating with the creative collective Air Afrique on graphics.—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 25 June 2024 Obviously, whatever municipal office keeps records of ice-cave cartography is closed for the festive season, but there’s a Venn diagram of evidence suggesting itself already.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024 Yet many trail names honor European settlers and explorers who traveled through those areas, and historical events following their arrival; and most cartography, including trail maps used by hikers, excludes Indigenous ancestral territories.—Katherine Gallardo, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for cartography
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Word History
Etymology
French cartographie, from carte card, map + -graphie -graphy — more at card entry 1
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