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| an area of relatively level high ground. |
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| not decorated or elaborate; simple or ordinary in character |
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| a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water |
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| a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land. |
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| a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia. |
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| the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
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| the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
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| a projection of a map of the world onto a cylinder in such a way that all the parallels of latitude have the same length as the equator, used esp. for marine charts and certain climatological maps. |
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| The Gall–Peters projection, named after James Gall and Arno Peters, is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection |
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