Lŏx'o-drŏm'ĭc, a.

a. [Fr. loxodromique.] Pertaining to oblique sailing, or sailing by the rhumb; as, loxodromic tables.

Loxodromic curve or 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.