| loxodromic | Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. <geometry> Loxodromic curve or line, a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass. Origin: Gr. Slanting, oblique + a running, course; cf. F. Loxodromique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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