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loxodromic

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  1. 1. a. Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Source: opted
  2. 2. 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. Source: webster
  3. 3. 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 rhumbline. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is alwaysin the direction of one and the same point of the compass. Source: adambom
  4. 4. a. Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Source: ecdict

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