- Look up
loxodromic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Loxodromic may
refer to: a loxodrome, see
rhumb line a
loxodromic transform, see Möbius transformation#Loxodromic...
- types, parabolic, elliptic,
hyperbolic and
loxodromic, with the
hyperbolic ones
being a
subclass of the
loxodromic ones. The
classification has both algebraic...
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Loxodromic navigation (from Gr**** λοξóς, oblique, and δρóμος, path) is a
method of
navigation by
following a
rhumb line, a
curve on the
surface of the...
- into five classes:
Elliptic transformations Hyperbolic transformations Loxodromic transformations Parabolic transformations The
trivial identity transformation...
- same angle. On a
nautical chart following the
Mercator projection, a
loxodromic is
represented by a
straight line. This type of
navigation is
useful for...
- of longitude).
Rhumb lines which cut
meridians at
oblique angles are
loxodromic curves which spiral towards the poles. On a
Mercator projection the north...
- In geometry, Coxeter's
loxodromic sequence of
tangent circles is an
infinite sequence of
circles arranged so that any four
consecutive circles in the sequence...
- that have been
proposed include rhumb line charts, comp****
charts or
loxodromic charts whereas modern French scholars prefer to call them
nautical charts...
- is
remembered in the
navigation context for the
determination of the
loxodromic curve: the
shortest course between two
points on the
surface of a sphere...
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Geodesics on an
ellipsoid Geodetic system Geographical distance Isoazi****l
Loxodromic navigation Meridian arc
Rhumb line
Spherical geometry Spherical trigonometry...
