(chiefly attributive) Pertaining to an orthomorphic map projection, in which meridians appear at right-angles to the equator, and lines of latitude are horizontal lines whose distance from each other increases with distance from the equator.

plural of Mercator

(obsolete) Market; trade.

A mermaid cat.

Obsolete form of meerkat.

plural of mercat

Of or relating to Gerardus Mercator, 16th-century Flemish cartographer who invented the Mercator projection.

The tendency of transnational commerce to operate outside any system of national laws, making use, instead, of a system of arbitration.