资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Loxodromic \Lox`o*drom"ic\, a. [Gr. ? slanting, oblique + ? a
   running, course; cf. F. loxodromique.]
   Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; 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.