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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a
     running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.]
     Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Loxodromic curve or Loxodromic 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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Rhumb \Rhumb\, n. [F. rumb, Sp. rumbo, or Pg. rumbo, rumo,
     probably fr. Gr. ??? a magic wheel, a whirling motion, hence
     applied to a point of the compass. See Rhomb.] (Navigation)
     A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant
     angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve.
     See Loxodromic.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     To sail on a rhumb, to sail continuously on one course,
        following a rhumb line.
        [1913 Webster]

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Rhumb \Rhumb\, n. [F. rumb, Sp. rumbo, or Pg. rumbo, rumo,
     probably fr. Gr. ??? a magic wheel, a whirling motion, hence
     applied to a point of the compass. See Rhomb.] (Navigation)
     A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant
     angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve.
     See Loxodromic.
  
     To sail on a rhumb, to sail continuously on one course,
        following a rhumb line.

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