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Mercator (
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
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merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade. Merchants have operated for as long as indust ...
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Marius Mercator Marius Mercator (born probably in Northern Africa about 390; died shortly after 451) was a Latin Christian ecclesiastical writer best known for his advocacy of Augustinianism, Augustinian theology during the Pelagianism, Pelagian controversy.
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(c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer
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Arnold Mercator
Arnold or Arnoldus Mercator (Leuven, 31 August 1537 – Duisburg, 6 July 1587) was a Southern Netherlandish cartographer, mathematician and classical philologist. He was the eldest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Merca ...
, a 16th-century cartographer
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Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and Cartography, cartographer from the County of Flanders. He is most renowned for creating the Mercator 1569 world map, 1569 world map based on ...
, a 16th-century cartographer
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Mercator 1569 world map
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Mercator projection
The Mercator projection () is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and sou ...
, a cartographic projection devised by Gerardus Mercator
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Rumold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
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Nicholas Mercator, a 17th-century mathematician
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Mercator series
In mathematics, the Mercator series or Newton–Mercator series is the Taylor series for the natural logarithm:
:\ln(1+x)=x-\frac+\frac-\frac+\cdots
In summation notation,
:\ln(1+x)=\sum_^\infty \frac x^n.
The series converges to the natural ...
, a representation of the natural logarithm
Companies and universities
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Mercator (retail)
Poslovni sistem Mercator, d.o.o. (; Latin for 'merchant') is a Slovenian business conglomerate. One of thte largest companies in Slovenia by annual revenue, it is the parent company of the Mercator Group of supermarket chains. It is wholly owned b ...
, a Slovenian supermarket chain
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Mercator-S, a retail company in Serbia, part of Agrokor Group
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Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Mercator Limited
Mercator Limited is an Indian company. It was earlier known as Mercator Lines Ltd. The Mercator group of companies has diversified business interests in Coal, Oil & Gas, Commodity Transportation, and Dredging. Mercator Limited (formerly Mercator L ...
, a shipping company in India
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Mercator (Latin for "merchant") may refer to:
People
* Marius Mercator (c. 390–451), a Catholic ecclesiastical writer
* Arnold Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
* Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century cartographer
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, a consulting firm and investment bank formed by James Giffen, involved with
Kazakhgate
Kаzаkhgаtе refers to the scandal surrounding James Giffen, an American businessman and former advisor of Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Charges
US prosecutors accused Giffen of bribery paid to Nazarbayev and Nurlan Balgimbayev, fo ...
Vehicles
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''Mercator'' (ship), a barquentine museum ship in Oostende, Belgium
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P4M Mercator
The Martin P4M Mercator was a maritime reconnaissance aircraft built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The Mercator was an unsuccessful contender for a United States Navy requirement for a long-range maritime patrol bomber, with the Lockheed P2V ...
, a reconnaissance aircraft used by the United States Navy during the 1950s
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QinetiQ Mercator, a British unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
* and , a number of ships named ''Mercator''
Other
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Mercator Telescope
The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven University), Belgium, in collaboration with the Observatory of the University of ...
, a Belgian telescope installed in La Palma, Canary Islands
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Mercator K55K
The Mercator K55K is a type of pocketknife produced in Germany since around 1867. Mercator knives were primarily produced by Hy. Kauffmann, which was operational from 1856 to 1995. The Mercator K55K knife is still produced in Germany by Mercator, ...
, a type of pocketknife produced in Germany
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''Mercator'' (play), a comedic play by Plautus
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IBM InfoSphere DataStage
IBM InfoSphere DataStage is an ETL tool and part of the IBM Information Platforms Solutions suite and IBM InfoSphere. It uses a graphical notation to construct data integration solutions and is available in various versions such as the Server Ed ...
, software whose component ''DataStage TX'' was formerly known as ''Mercator'' and is now called ''WebSphere Transformation Extender''
* "Mercator", a song by P-MODEL from the album ''
Perspective II''
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Mercator (crater)
Mercator is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium, in the southwest part of the Moon. It was named after 16th-century Southern Dutch cartographer Gerardus Mercator. It is located to the southeast of the crate ...
, a lunar impact crater on the southwestern edge of Mare Nubium
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Kaufmann
Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means ''merchant''. It is the cognate of the English '' Chapman'' (which had a similar meaning in the Middle Ages, though it disappeared from ...
(German)
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Kofman Kofman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bereck Kofman (1900–1943), French rabbi
* Boaz Kofman (born 1935), Israeli footballer
* Celina Kofman (1924–2020), Argentine human rights activist
* Galina Kofman, American compu ...
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Koffman Koffman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Elliot Koffman (born 1942), computer scientist and educationist
*Laura Koffman (born ''Laura Bonarrigo'' in 1964), American actress
*Moe Koffman (1928–2001), Canadian jazz saxophonis ...
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Marchant Marchant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Adio Marchant (born 1987), English singer and songwriter known professionally as Bipolar Sunshine
* Alison Marchant, Australian politician
* Chesten Marchant (died 1676), last monogl ...
(French)
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Merchant (surname)
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Latin-language surnames