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sea navigation along rhumb lines.[1890-95]
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rhumb sailing
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rhumb-sailing — rhumbˈ sailing noun • • • Main Entry: ↑rhumb … Useful english dictionary
rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines. [1890 95] * * * rhumb sailing, sailing on a rhumb line … Useful english dictionary
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rhumb line — noun a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction • Syn: ↑rhumb, ↑loxodrome • Hypernyms: ↑line * * * ˈrəm|līn noun : a line on the surface of the earth … Useful english dictionary
sailing — /say ling/, n. 1. the activity of a person or thing that sails. 2. the departure of a ship from port: The cruise line offers sailings every other day. 3. Navig. any of various methods for determining courses and distances by means of charts or… … Universalium
rhumb — n. Naut. 1 any of the 32 points of the compass. 2 the angle between two successive compass points. 3 (in full rhumb line) a a line cutting all meridians at the same angle. b the line followed by a ship sailing in a fixed direction. Etymology: F… … Useful english dictionary
Plane sailing — (also spelt plain sailing) is an approximate method of navigation over small ranges of latitude and longitude.Both spellings ( plane and plain ) have been in use for several centuries, [ A Token for Ship Boys, or Plain Sailing made more plain… … Wikipedia
great-circle sailing — noun : the navigation or conducting of a ship on a great circle track or on a course determined in relation to a great circle track compare sailing * * * /grayt serr keuhl/, Navig. sailing between two points more or less according to an arc of a… … Useful english dictionary
Oblique sailing — Oblique Ob*lique , a. [F., fr. L. obliquus; ob (see {Ob }) + liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr. le chrios slanting.] [Written also {oblike}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
great-circle sailing — /grayt serr keuhl/, Navig. sailing between two points more or less according to an arc of a great circle, in practice almost always using a series of rhumb lines of different bearings to approximate the arc, whose own bearing changes constantly… … Universalium
