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单词 rhumb line
释义 rhumb line
\ˈrəm|līn\ noun
: a line on the surface of the earth that makes equal oblique angles with all meridians, that is a spiral coiling round the poles but never reaching them, and that is the path of a ship sailing always oblique to the meridian in the direction of one and the same point of the compass
 < the only projection on which the rhumb line on the earth is reduced to a straight line on the map is the Mercator projection — C.H.Deetz >
— called also loxodrome, loxodromic curve
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