LOXODROMICALLY

Etymology

Adverb

loxodromically (not comparable)

In a loxodromic fashion.

to navigate loxodromically

Source: Wiktionary


LOXODROMIC

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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