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Definition of Rhumb line
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 line
1. Noun. A line that cuts all meridians at the same angle. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) The path of a vessel that maintains a constant compass direction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhumb Line
Literary usage of Rhumb line
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
... And the angle which the rhumb-line makes with any parallel to the equator, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"4 the line EB is a portion of a loxodromic curve or rhumb-line ... By determining
points on the circle and sailing along the rhumb-line from point to point, ..."
3. 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 ..."
4. A Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: Including the Theory of by William Carpenter Pendleton Muir (1918)
"The rhumb line or loxodromic curve is a line on the surface of the earth which
makes a constant angle with each successive meridian. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"A curve passing through any two places on the earth, and cutting every intervening
meridian at the same angle, is called a rhumb line ; the angle which such ..."
6. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"[LATITUDE; A curve passing through any two places on the earth, and cutting every
intervening meridian at the sume angle, is called a rhumb line ; the angle ..."
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