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Mercator is the Latin word for "merchant; trader", from the verb mercari, "to buy; to trade".

It is also the Latinized name of the 16th-century Flemish cartographer Gerard de Kremer (Gerardus Mercator), who invented the Mercator projection (a method of representing the spherical surface of the earth on a flat rectangular map).

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