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loxodromic

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.