LOXODROMIC

loxodromic. Loxodromic, a. pertaining to the rhumbline

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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.