Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
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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