Usually means: Path maintaining constant compass bearing.
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  1. loxodrome: Merriam-Webster
  2. loxodrome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. loxodrome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. loxodrome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. loxodrome: Vocabulary.com
  6. loxodrome: Wordnik
  7. loxodrome: Wiktionary
  8. loxodrome: Dictionary.com
  9. Loxodrome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. loxodrome: Rhymezone
  11. loxodrome: FreeDictionary.org
  12. loxodrome: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. loxodrome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. loxodrome: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. loxodrome: Encyclopedia

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  1. loxodrome: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Loxodrome: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (loxodrome)

noun:  (mathematics, nautical) A line on a surface (such as the Earth) that cuts all meridians at a constant angle (but not a right angle) – on Earth, the path followed by a ship or aircraft that maintains a constant course by the compass.

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