n. a person or business which performs services for another person or entity under a contract between them, with the terms spelled out such as duties, pay, the amount and type of work and other matters. An independent contractor is distinguished from an employee, who works regularly for an employer.
Conformal Mapping. A conformal mapping, also called a conformal map, conformal transformation, angle-preserving transformation, or biholomorphic map, is a transformation that preserves local angles.An analytic function is conformal at any point where it has a nonzero derivative.onformal Mapping. A conformal mapping, also called a conformal map, conformal transformation, angle-preserving transformation, or biholomorphic map, is a transformation that preserves local angles. An analytic function is conformal at any point where it has a nonzero derivative.
The Mercator projection is a conformal projection, meaning that angles and small shapes on the globe project as the same angles or shapes on the map.The price paid by all conformal projections is great variation in scale away from the central portions of the map.he Transverse Mercator Projection. The familiar Mercator projection used on so many world maps is a cylindrical projection, meaning the globe is encircled by an imaginary cylinder touching at the equator, and the earth is projected onto the cylinder.