- In navigation, a
rhumb line,
rhumb (/rĘŚm/), or
loxodrome is an arc
crossing all
meridians of
longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...
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Rhumb may
refer to:
Rhumb line, a
navigational path with a
constant bearing one of the 16 or 32
points of the comp**** (now rare) a
nautical unit of angular...
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bearing as a
straight segment. Such a course,
known as a
rhumb (alternately
called a
rhumb line or loxodrome) is
preferred in
marine navigation because...
- The
Rhumb Line is the
debut LP for the Syracuse-based
indie rock band Ra Ra Riot.
Recorded in late 2007 with Ryan
Hadlock in Woodinville, WA, the band...
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books of
sailing directions.
Other names that have been
proposed include rhumb line charts, comp****
charts or
loxodromic charts whereas modern French scholars...
- or
historical use include: Ship
measurements Glossary of
nautical terms "
rhumb, n".
Oxford English Dictionary.
sense 2.b.
Retrieved 21
September 2020....
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unambiguously called windrose lines,
since they are not true
rhumb lines by the
modern definition. A
rhumb line in the
modern sense is only
straight on a chart...
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integrates a
function along all
great circles of the sphere.
Great ellipse Rhumb line W., Weisstein, Eric. "Great
Circle -- from
Wolfram MathWorld". mathworld...
- This 'correction',
whereby constant bearing sailing courses on the
sphere (
rhumb lines) are
mapped to
straight lines on the
plane map,
characterizes the...
- they had
signed to
Barsuk Records. They
released their debut album, The
Rhumb Line, on
August 19, 2008, in
North America, and on
September 22, 2008, in...