loxodromic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.

   “[…]and who was himself on the early threshold of a decision precisely the opposite in its motives and predispositions, a ship, as it were, straining at its moorings in a contrary current and arming for its sinuous and loxodromic voyage to the richer though silted harbor of Rye[…]”

2. sıfat Preserving angles between curves, such as in a Möbius transformation that is not elliptic or parabolic.
3. isim A path or curve on the surface of a sphere that intersects all meridians at a constant angle.