MERCATOR as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • Flemish geographer who lived in Germany
   • he invented the Mercator projection of maps of the globe (1512-1594)
   Synonym(s)
   • Gerardus Mercator (what does Gerardus Mercator mean?)
   • Gerhard Kremer (what does Gerhard Kremer mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Mercator is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • geographer (what does geographer mean?)