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Definition of Loxodromic curve

Loxodromic curve
Loxodromic Lox`o*drom"ic, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.] 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.
loxodromic curve
Rhumb Rhumb, n. [F. rumb, Sp. rumbo, or Pg. rumbo, rumo, probably fr. Gr. ??? a magic wheel, a whirling motion, hence applied to a point of the compass. See Rhomb.] (Navigation) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic. To sail on a rhumb, to sail continuously on one course, following a rhumb line.

Meaning of Loxodromic curve from wikipedia

- Loxodromic navigation (from Gr**** λοξóς, oblique, and δρóμος, path) is a method of navigation by following a rhumb line, a curve on the surface of the...
- longitude). Rhumb lines which cut meridians at oblique angles are loxodromic curves which spiral towards the poles. On a Mercator projection the North...
- types, parabolic, elliptic, hyperbolic and loxodromic, with the hyperbolic ones being a subclass of the loxodromic ones. The classification has both algebraic...
- remembered in the navigation context for the determination of the loxodromic curve: the shortest course between two points on the surface of a sphere...
- Pedro Nunes (1502-1578) achieved the mathematical determination of the loxodromic curve: the shortest course between two points on the surface of a sphere...
- lines— maintain a fixed angle with the meridians. In other words, loxodromic curves are directly related to the construction of the Nunes connection —also...
- into five classes: Elliptic transformations Hyperbolic transformations Loxodromic transformations Parabolic transformations The trivial identity transformation...
- 3 types of transformation: hyperbolic, elliptic, and parabolic. (The loxodromic transformations are not present because we are working with real numbers...
- Geodesics on an ellipsoid Geodetic system Geographical distance Isoazi****l Loxodromic navigation Meridian arc Rhumb line Spherical geometry Spherical trigonometry...
- lines, maintain a fixed angle with the meridians. In other words, loxodromic curves are directly related to the construction of the Nunes connection,...