chart (chart)

[F. charte, a charter, partly The examiner will find on charts drawn more than a century ago, with bearings and leading-marks, many of the rocks supposed to be recent discoveries. Smyth , The Méditerranean. 2. A sheet of any kind on which information is exhibited in a methodical or tabulated form: as, a historical chart; a genealogical chart; a chart of the kings of England.-3. A written deed or charter. In old charts we find the words Angli and Anglici contradistinguished to Franci. Brady, Introd. to Old Eng. Hist., Glo ., p. 11. Conical, globular, gnomonic, i so cylindric, parallelogrammatic, polyconic, sinusoidal, stereographic, etc., chart. See projection . - Mercat or's chart (named from Gerardus Mercat or, a Flemish chartographer, 151294), a chart on which the meridians are straight lines, parallel and equidistant; the parallels of latitude are straight lines, the distance between which increases from the equator toward either pole, in the ratio of the secant of the latitude to the radius. See projection . Plane chart, a representation of some part of the surface of the globe in which the meridians are supposed to be parallel to one another, the parallels of latitude at equal distances, and of course the degrees of latitude and longitude everywhere equal to one another. - Ptolemaic chart. See projection. Selenographic chart, a map of the moon. -Topographic chart, a chart showing the topography of a particular place or a small part of the earth's surface. =Syn. Chart, Map. As the words are commonly used, a chart is a draft of some navigable water with its connected land-surface; a map is a draft of some portion of land with its connected water-surface, either as a separate work or as a division of a general geographical atlas.