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. or conformal transformation (in mathematics), a mapping of one figure (region) to another in which any two curves intersecting at a certain angle at an interior point of the first figure are transformed into curves that intersect at the same angle in the second figure.hat this conformal mapping is realized with the aid of the function of the complex variable zâ = z 2. It is not difficult to ascertain that in this case the half-lines parallel to the sides of the angle are transformed into half-parabolas with a common focus at Oâ (Figure 3).
1. map projection-a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude. conformal projection, orthomorphic projection-a map projection in which a small area is rendered in its true shape.