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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.
Definition 2024
loxodromic
loxodromic
English
Adjective
loxodromic (not comparable)
- (nautical) Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.
- 1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman:
- a ship, as it were, straining at its mooring in a contrary current and arming for its sinuous and loxodromic voyage to the richer though silted harbour of Rye
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Derived terms
- loxodrome
- loxodromic transformation