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loxodromic |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a running, course; cf F. loxodromique.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as loxodromic tables. {Loxodromic curve} or {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.