: relating to a rhumb line or to sailing on rhumb lines.

What is meant by loxodrome?

loxodrome, also called Rhumb Line, or Spherical Helix, curve cutting the meridians of a sphere at a constant nonright angle. Thus, it may be seen as the path of a ship sailing always oblique to the meridian and directed always to the same point of the compass. ... Rhumb lines are used to simplify small-scale charting.

What is loxodrome in geography?

a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. — loxodromic, adj. See also: Geography.