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Webster 1913 Edition
Loxodromic
Loxˊo-drom′ic
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] slanting, oblique + [GREEK] a running, course; cf. F.
loxodromique
.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines;
as,
. loxodromic
tablesLoxodromic curve
or
Loxodromic line
(Geom.)
, 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Loxodromic
LOXODROM'IC
,Adj.
Pertaining to oblique sailing by the rhomb; as loxodromic tables.