- In navigation, a
rhumb line,
rhumb (/rʌm/), or
loxodrome is an arc
crossing all
meridians of
longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...
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standard map
projection for
navigation due to its
property of
representing rhumb lines as
straight lines. When
applied to
world maps, the
Mercator projection...
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Rhumb may
refer to:
Rhumb line, a
navigational path with a
constant bearing one of the 16 or 32
points of the comp**** (now rare) a
nautical unit of angular...
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books of
sailing directions.
Other names that have been
proposed include rhumb line charts, comp****
charts or
loxodromic charts whereas modern French scholars...
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windrose lines (after wind roses),
since they are not true
rhumb lines by the
modern definition. A
rhumb line in the
modern sense is only
straight on a chart...
- This 'correction',
whereby constant bearing sailing courses on the
sphere (
rhumb lines) are
mapped to
straight lines on the
plane map,
characterizes the...
- The
Rhumb Line is the
debut LP for the Syracuse-based
indie rock band Ra Ra Riot.
Recorded in late 2007 with Ryan
Hadlock in Woodinville, WA, the band...
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integrates a
function along all
great circles of the sphere.
Great ellipse Rhumb line W., Weisstein, Eric. "Great
Circle -- from
Wolfram MathWorld". mathworld...
- they had
signed to
Barsuk Records. They
released their debut album, The
Rhumb Line, on
August 19, 2008, in
North America, and on
September 22, 2008, in...
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change of course.
Titanic sailed only a few
hours past the
corner on a
rhumb line leg of 1,023
nautical miles (1,177 mi; 1,895 km) to
Nantucket Shoals...
