Usually means: Shortest path between two points.
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  1. orthodrome: Wiktionary
  2. Orthodrome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Orthodrome: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orthodrome)

▸ noun:  (geometry) A great circle, or part of one.

Similar:
orthodromy, geodesic, circumscribed circle, orthotomic circle, hyperrectangle, hour circle, midcircle, hypotrochoid, cyclometry, perigon, more...

Opposite:
loxodrome, rhumb line

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Similar:
orthodromy, geodesic, circumscribed circle, orthotomic circle, hyperrectangle, hour circle, midcircle, hypotrochoid, cyclometry, perigon, more...

Opposite:
loxodrome, rhumb line



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