LOXODROMIC

Etymology

Adjective

loxodromic (not comparable)

(nautical) Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.

Source: Wiktionary

Lox`o*drom"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. loxodromique.]

Definition: Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Loxodromic curve or 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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