In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
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
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
2 July 2025
RESTITUTION
(noun) getting something back again; “upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing”
Coffee Trivia
