Loxodromic
Pronunciation : Lox`o*drom"ic
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [Gr. loxodromique.]
Definition : Defn: Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913