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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of oblique sailing by the loxodrome or rhumb, which makes an equal angle with each meridian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or method of sailing on the loxodromic or rhumb line.
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- noun The art or method of
sailing on theloxodrome .
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chained_bear commented on the word loxodromics
"... the art of oblique sailing, by the rhomb, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; that is, when you sail neither directly under the equator, nor under one and the same meridian, but across them."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 246
October 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word loxodromics
Nifty!
I've also seen rhomb spelled rhumb.
October 14, 2008