- Cylindrical (or cylindric) map projection : A cylindrical (or cylindric) map projection is One of a class of map projections formed by projecting coordinates from the earth's surface onto a cylinder that either intersects the surface in two small circles or is tangent to a great circle on the surface. When the cylinder intersects the surface, the projection is said to be the secant case.

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