Usually means: Path maintaining constant compass direction.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhumb line: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhumb line: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rhumb line: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rhumb line: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rhumb line: Vocabulary.com
  6. rhumb-line: Wordnik
  7. rhumb-line, rhumb line: Wiktionary
  8. rhumb line: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. rhumb line: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. rhumb line: Dictionary.com
  11. Rhumb Line (board game), Rhumb-line, Rhumb line, The Rhumb Line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. rhumb line: Rhymezone
  13. rhumb-line: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. rhumb line: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rhumb line: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. rhumb line: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhumb line: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhumb line: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rhumb Line: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See rhumb_lines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rhumb line)

noun:  (nautical) A line that cuts all meridians at the same angle, the path of a vessel that maintains a constant compass direction.

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