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Rhumb  n.  (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.






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"Rhumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... gape of the Ancobra River the foreshore gradually bends for a few miles from a west-east to a north-south rhumb, and forms a bay within a bay. The larger is bounded north by Akromasi Point, the southern wall of the great stream; the bold foreland outlain with reefs and a rock like a headless sphinx, is known from afar, east and west, by its 'one tree,' ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron

... line which joins any two places on the earth's surface, cutting all the meridians at the same angle, is called the Rhumb Line. The angle which this line makes with the meridian of Lo. intersecting any point in question is the Course, and the length of the line between any two places is called the distance between them. ...
— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper

... RHUMB LINE, a circle on the earth's surface making a given angle with the meridian; applied to the course ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood



Words linked to "Rhumb" :   loxodrome, rhumb line, line



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