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.
Introduction. 1  Map projections are attempts to portray the surface of the earth or a portion of the earth on a flat surface. 2  Some distortions of conformality, distance, direction, scale, and area always result from this process. Some projection are attempts to only moderately distort all of these properties. 2  Conformality. 3  When the scale of a map at any point on the map is the same in any direction, the projection is conformal. 4  Meridians (lines of longitude) and parallels (lines of latitude) intersect at right angles.