1) Of map-projection lines
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• (a.) Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
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Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. ... <geometry> Loxodromic curve or line, 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. ... Origin: Gr...
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Lox`o·drom'ic adjective [ Greek ... slanting, oblique + ... a running, course; confer French
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 a...
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loxodromic Relating to a map in which the rhumb lines (steady courses along one compass setting taken by a ship or aircraft) appear straight, or to the rhumb lines on such a map.
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noting, pertaining to, or according to loxodromes or rhumb lines. · noting or pertaining to a map projection, as Mercator's projection, in which rhumb lines appear as straight lines.
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