{"query": "Projection — the flat map must distort", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_geography_projection", "title": "Projection — the flat map must distort", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Longitude is time (15 degrees per hour, sealed), and any flat map of a sphere must distort area or angle - a sphere has no flat image (Gauss). Every projection is a choice of what to preserve.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Narrow Highway — geography", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_theory_map_projections", "title": "Map projections (why no flat map is honest)", "shelf": "theories", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Map projections (why no flat map is honest) — an engine domain that can touch it: geography. Calibration: seals — projected coordinates and distortion factors compute exactly. NO FLAT MAP OF A SPHERE ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "The Theory Assay — calibrated, not judged (docs/THEORY_CATALOG.md)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_etym_distort", "title": "distort", "shelf": "etymology", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "distort: etymology (Webster 1913) — a.: [L. distortus, p. p. of distorquere to twist, distort; dis- + torquere to twist. See Torsion.]. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), public doma", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), Project Gutenberg eBook #29765 — public domain", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_pron_distorts", "title": "distorts", "shelf": "pronunciation", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "distorts: pronounced (ARPABET) D IH0 S T AO1 R T S. From the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — the standard machine-readable pronunciations of North American English.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict) — BSD-2-Clause, Carnegie Mellon", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_pron_distort", "title": "distort", "shelf": "pronunciation", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "distort: pronounced (ARPABET) D IH0 S T AO1 R T. From the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — the standard machine-readable pronunciations of North American English.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmudict) — BSD-2-Clause, Carnegie Mellon", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_floor_geography", "title": "Geography — the measured Earth", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A degree of latitude is 111 km; longitude is time (15 degrees per hour); and any flat map of a sphere must distort. Two pillars rest on earth science (the planet) and the instruments (coordinates and ", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Narrow Highway — geography", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g1389", "title": "G1389 — δολόω (doloō): to distort", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "δολόω (doloō), Strong's G1389: to distort. δολόω , -ῶ (δόλος) [in LXX: Psa.15:3 (רָגַל), Psa.36:2 (חָלַק hi.) * ;] __1. to ensnare . __2. As of wine, to adulterate, corrupt : τ. λόγον τ. θεοῦ, 2Co.4:2", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "STEPBible TBESH/TBESG — Extended Strong's lexicon (CC-BY, Tyndale House)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g4761", "title": "G4761 — στρεβλόω (strebloō): to distort", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "στρεβλόω (strebloō), Strong's G4761: to distort. στρεβλόω , -ῶ (στρέφω), [in LXX: 2Ki.22:27 (פָּתַל hithp.), 3Ma.4:14 , 4Ma.9:17 4Mac 12:4 4Mac 12:11 4Mac 15:14 * ;] to twist, torture. Metaphorical (c", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "STEPBible TBESH/TBESG — Extended Strong's lexicon (CC-BY, Tyndale House)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_etym_strabotomy", "title": "strabotomy", "shelf": "etymology", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "strabotomy: etymology (Webster 1913) — n.: [Gr. (Surg.) Defn: The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.]. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dic", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), Project Gutenberg eBook #29765 — public domain", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_etym_wring", "title": "wring", "shelf": "etymology", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "wring: etymology (Webster 1913) — v. t.: [OE. wringen, AS. wringan; akin to LG. & D. wringen, OHG. ringan to struggle, G. ringen, Sw. vränga to distort, Dan. vringle to twist. Cf. 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