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loxodromic, a. and n.|lɒksəʊˈdrɒmɪk|
[Formed as prec. + -ic. Cf. F. loxodromique.]
A. adj. Pertaining to oblique sailing, or sailing by the rhumb. loxodromic chart, loxodromic projection, another name for Mercator's projection. loxodromic curve, loxodromic line, loxodromic spiral, a rhumb-line. loxodromic tables, traverse tables.
1702J. Ralphson Math. Dict., Loxodromick Line. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Table, Loxodromick Tables. 1834Nat. Philos., Navigation ii. iv. §51. 19 (U.K.S.) The oblique rhumb line is called also the Loxodromic curve. 1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 183/1 Loxodromic spiral, the curve on which a ship sails when her course is always on one point of the compass. It is called in English works Rhumb Line. 1855Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (1859) §123 These..counter-currents are also made to move in a sort of spiral or loxodromic curve.
B. n. = loxodromic line, table.
b. loxodromics: the art of oblique sailing.
a1679Sir J. Moore Syst. Math. (1681) II. 120 Loxodromiques or Traverse-Tables of Miles, with the Difference of Longitudes and Latitudes. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn., Loxodromiques, is the Art or Way of oblique sailing by the Rumb... Hence the Tables of Rhumbs, or the Traverse Table of Miles,..is by Sir J. Moore, and others, called by this Name of Loxodromiques. 1762Dunn in Phil. Trans. LIII. 66 If rightly correspondent with the loxodromiques or rhumbs. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea iv. §235 It is diverted from the great circle path and forced to take up its line of march, either in spirals about a point on the surface of the earth, or in loxodromics about its axis. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Loxodromic, the line of a ship's way when sailing oblique to the meridian. |