See Also: Peters(dictionary)
Peters' anomaly(medicine)
Peters' ovum(medicine)
Peters, Albert(medicine)
Peters, Hubert(medicine)
Peters, Carl(encyclopedia)
Saint Peters Hospital(health)
PETERS MACGREGOR Investments Limited(finance)
Barnes-Jewish Saint Peters Hospital(health)

Peters (iou)



Peters noun. L20.
[Arno Peters (b. 1916), German historian.]
Peters projection, Peters' projection, a world map projection in which areas are shown in correct proportion at the expense of distorted shape, using a rectangular decimal grid to replace latitude and longitude.
? Devised to be a fairer representation of equatorial countries (i.e. most developing countries), whose area is under-represented by the usual projections such as Mercator's.