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lox⋅o⋅drom⋅ic
[lok-suh-drom-ik] 
səˈdrɒm
–adjective
| 1. | noting, pertaining to, or according to loxodromes or rhumb lines. |
| 2. | noting or pertaining to a map projection, as Mercator's projection, in which rhumb lines appear as straight lines. |
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| lox·o·drome (lŏk'sə-drōm') n. See rhumb line. [Greek loxos, slanting + Greek dromos, course.] lox'o·drom'ic (-drŏm'ĭk), lox'o·drom'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj., lox'o·drom'i·cal·ly adv. |
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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. 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.
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