Definition of Loxodramic
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (Nautical) pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing
*1969: 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 — John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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