Crossword-Solution: LOXODROMIC 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

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.

Defn: The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

Rhomb.] (Navigation) Defn: A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve.

From the numerous compass or wind roses, distributed with some regularity over its surface, he drew loxodromic lines, or curved lines cutting the meridians at equal angles.[273] This feature could not have failed to win the approval of navigators, since they well knew that the previous attempts to represent these rhumbs as straight lines on maps drawn on a cylindrical projection, led to numerous errors in navigation.

Loxodromic lines are made a conspicuous feature, having their crossing centers at longitudes 0, 90, 180, and 270 on the equator, likewise on the prime meridian at latitude 35 degrees both north and south, as well as at the same latitudes on the opposite side of the sphere, where the prime meridian becomes the meridian of 180 degrees.