Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to oblique sailing, or sailing by the rhumb: as, loxodromic tables

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines.
  • adjective (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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  • adjective nautical Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.

Etymologies

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From French loxodromique, from Ancient Greek λοξος ("oblique") + δρομος ("course").

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