NOUN
- a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction
How To Use loxodrome In A Sentence
- This is the second Mercator chart showing Lindbergh's route as a series of 500 mile-long loxodromes approximating the great circle route from New York to Paris.
- his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride. The Seattle Times
- The Mercator projection was developed especially for navigators, and presents straight lines as loxodromes.
- How Mercator did this is as follows: the meridians and parallels must be arranged so that the loxodromes cut the meridians at constant angles.
- Since a loxodrome is not a great circle, it follows that by tracking a loxodrome a longer distance must be traveled compared to a great circle line.
- The problem of calculating loxodromes is exactly the problem of the fundamental theorem of calculus.
- In fact, if the birds were to follow loxodromes, maintaining fixed geographic courses, the vast majority would migrate towards Greenland.
- The obscure concepts of the rhumb line, the loxodrome, and spherical trigonometry were also beyond their grasp.
- Snell studied the loxodrome, the path on the sphere that makes constant angle with the meridians.
- For the first time, sea captains had maps showing loxodromes as straight lines.
