'Loxodromic curve' definitions:
Definition of 'Loxodromic curve'
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- 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]
Definition of 'loxodromic curve'
From: 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]