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Definition of Pilot chart
1. Noun. A chart for a navigator showing the prevailing meteorological and hydrographic and navigational conditions.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilot Chart
Literary usage of Pilot chart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Upon the pilot chart of the North Pacific Ocean there appears the average track
followed by the centres of the barometric depressions for the month that ..."
2. Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts by M[atthew] F[ontaine] Maury (1851)
"... in any part of the ocean, is found in a given number of times to come from
each point of the compass ; and consequently, by studying the pilot chart, ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"A weekly edition of the North Atlantic pilot chart would show the track of recent
... 14 on December pilot chart." The positions of all wrecks, stranded and ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"THE pilot chart for September, under the title ' Transatlantic Routes,' refers
to the collision between the two Danish steamships 'Geiser' and 'Thingvalla," ..."
5. Catalogue of New-York State Library: 1856 : Maps, Manuscripts, Engravings by New York State Library (1857)
"pilot chart of the Coast of Brazil, 1849. No. 11. pilot chart of the Coast of
... pilot chart of the North Atlantic. 2d edition, 1853 Series C : No. 1, 2. ..."
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