rhumb line
See also: rhumbline and rhumb-line
English
Noun
rhumb line (plural rhumb lines)
- (nautical) A line that cuts all meridians at the same angle, the path of a vessel that maintains a constant compass direction.
- Synonyms: rhumb, loxodrome
- Coordinate term: orthodrome
- 1964, David Greenhood, Mapping, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 128:
- On portolan maps rhumb lines were all the go long before Mercator's time. […] It's a different matter putting a straight rhumb line on a map made for a round world. And on a map made for the whole world.
Translations
a line cutting all meridians at a constant angle
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