rhumb line

See also: rhumbline and rhumb-line

English

Noun

rhumb line (plural rhumb lines)

1. (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

• Esperanto: loksodromio
• Finnish: loksodromi, kompassiviiva
• French: loxodromie (fr) f, ligne de vent (fr) f
• German: Loxodrome f, Windlinie f
• Greek: λοξοδρομία (el) f (loxodromía)
• Hungarian: loxodroma
• Italian: lossodromica f
• Polish: loksodroma (pl) f
• Portuguese: linha de rumo f, curva loxodrómica f, loxodromia f
• Russian: локсодрома (ru) f (loksodroma), локсодромия (ru) f (loksodromija)
• Swedish: loxodromlinje