Loxodromic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a
     running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.]
     Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.
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     {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.
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