What is "loxodromic"

Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.

Loxodromic curve or Loxodromic line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass.

a. (context nautical English) Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.

Loxodromic may refer to:

• a loxodrome, see rhumb line
• a loxodromic transform, see Möbius transformation#Loxodromic transforms