loxodromic

From French loxodromique, from Ancient Greek λοξός (loxós, “oblique”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”).

• IPA^(key): /lɒksəˈdɹɒmɪk/

loxodromic (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Pertaining to motion at a constant angle to the meridians; on a set compass bearing.
   • 1969 November 10, John Fowles, chapter 59, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1st US edition, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company […], →OCLC, page 344:

     […] 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. (mathematics) Preserving angles between curves, such as in a Möbius transformation that is not elliptic or parabolic.

• loxodrome
• loxodromic transformation

loxodromic (plural loxodromics)

1. A path or curve on the surface of a sphere that intersects all meridians at a constant angle.

Borrowed from French loxodromique.

loxodromic m or n (feminine singular loxodromică, masculine plural loxodromici, feminine and neuter plural loxodromice)

1. loxodromic