cart-, carto- +

1. A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service.
2. An official agreement between governments at war, especially one concerning the exchange of prisoners.
3. A group of parties, factions, or nations united in a common cause; a bloc.
4. Etymology: "a written challenge", from Middle French cartel; from Italian cartello, diminutive of carta, "card". It came to mean "written agreement between challengers" in about 1692.

A type of single-topic map which is not made with a constant scale, in which features are deliberately distorted to show their relative value to one another in terms of that single topic; for example, a map in which states, or countries, are made large or small according to their agricultural production.

A reference to a map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; related to a statistical map.

A map.

Someone who makes or compiles charts or maps.

The freedom to adjust, add, or omit features on a map, within stated allowable limits, to obtain the best cartographic expressions.

An artificial satellite designed to take photographs and collect data used in preparing maps of the earth's surface.

1. Relating to the tools and techniques of surveying land surfaces for the purposes of making maps, or the graphic tools and techniques used to produce maps.
2. A reference to the science, skill, or work of making maps.

1. The science, skill, or work of making maps.
2. The art or technique of making maps or charts.
3. Etymology: from French cartographie, from Middle Latin carta, "paper".

Maps are graphic simplifications of reality, portraying relationships on the surface of the earth, or other celestial bodies, with points, lines, areas, symbols, colors, and typography.

Some maps are charts that display data specifically for nautical and aeronautical navigation. A map can be either two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

A method of coal-seam correlation which involves the mapping and drawing of both vertical and horizontal sections.

Divination prophecy with playing cards; similar to tarot cards.

This divination method includes Tarot cards, modern playing cards, and even special divination cards produced for this purpose.

Said to originate with gypsies who prognostigated the future, provided guidance or revealed personality traits. This method of divination was not taken seriously when it was introduced to Europe in 1300 A.D.

The accurate measurement of geographic or grid coordinates on a map or chart by means of a scale.

1. A cardboard box in which something; such as, merchandise, movable property, or mail is packaged.
2. A plastic or cardboard container, or a container made of plastic or waxed cardboard in which food or drink is sold.
3. Etymology: from French carton, "pasteboard"; from Italian cartone, "pasteboard"; from Middle Latin carta, "paper". Originally the material for making paper boxes; extended in 1906 to the boxes themselves.

1. A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.
2. A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically; such as, a political cartoon.
3. An animated cartoon.
4. A comic strip.
5. Etymology: from French carton; from Italian cartone, "strong, heavy paper, pasteboard"; thus, "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper"; from Middle Latin carta, "paper".

An extension to comical drawings in newspapers and magazines came in 1843. Cartoonist was first recorded in 1880.

A collector of cigarette cards.