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The line or course followed by a ship or other vessel sailing in a fixed direction. Also: an imaginary line on the earth's surface intersecting…
= loxodromic line, loxodromic tables at sense A.
A loxodromic line or course; also = loxodromics n.
Pertaining to oblique sailing, or sailing by the rhumb. loxodromic chart, loxodromic projection, another name for Mercator's projection. loxodromic…