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Definition of Rhumb
1. 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.
Definition of Rhumb
1. n. A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.
Definition of Rhumb
1. Noun. (navigation) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle ¹
2. Noun. (navigation) One of the 32 points of the compass (compass points) ¹
3. Noun. (navigation) A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32nd of a circle or 11.25° ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhumb
1. a point of the mariner's compass [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rhumb
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhumb
Literary usage of Rhumb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"The length of a part of this rhumb-line, or spiral, then, is the distance run by
the ship ... Aubin defines a rhumb to be a line on the terrestrial globe, ..."
2. Bering's Voyages: An Account of the Efforts of the Russians to Determine the by Frank Alfred Golder, Leonhard Stejneger (1922)
"... longitude 48° 36', rhumb S88°37'E, distance 1773 knots. At the eighth hour in
the evening we noticed considerable green-looking vegetation afloat, ..."
3. A Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: Including the Theory of by William Carpenter Pendleton Muir (1918)
"The arc of the great circle passing through two places is the shortest distance
between these places, so that a rhumb line is always longer than the great ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Plane & Spherical Trigonometry: With Their by Benjamin Peirce (1861)
"A rhumb line, or rhumb, is a line drawn on the surface of the earth so as to ...
Any two places can be connected by a rhumb line, and the length of the ..."
5. Philosophia Britannica: Or, A New & Comprehensive System of the Newtonian by Benjamin Martin (1747)
"Hence the rhumb-Line has acquir'd the Name of the Logarithmic Spiral. ...
Tangents is a Scale of the Differences of Longitude on fame rhumb or other. ..."
6. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"On the nw opposite the point of Chama, which is towards that rhumb, is a hill
called the Height de ..."
7. The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy by Henry Raper (1882)
"To the log. cosec. of the lat. of the vertex add the log. cos. of the rhumb
course; the sum is the log. sine of the diff. long, between the vertex and point ..."
8. Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. Senate (1866)
"From San Francisco to Hong Kong, via Yokohama and Colnet strait, rhumb line 6340
... From Yokohama to Hong Kong, via Van Dieman strait, rhumb line 1575 No. ..."
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