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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stereographic  \Ste`re*o*graph"ic\,  Stereographical 
  \Ste`re*o*graph"ic*al\,  a.  [Cf.  F.  st['e]r['e]ographique.] 
  Made  or  done  according  to  the  rules  of  stereography; 
  delineated  on  a  plane;  as  a  stereographic  chart  of  the 
  earth. 
 
  {Stereographic  projection}  (Geom.),  a  method  of  representing 
  the  sphere  in  which  the  center  of  projection  is  taken  in 
  the  surface  of  the  sphere,  and  the  plane  upon  which  the 
  projection  is  made  is  at  right  andles  to  the  diameter 
  passing  through  the  center  of  projection. 

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