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Rhumb Line


Specialty Definitions: Rhumb Line

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Geography

A line on the Earth's surface which intersects all meridians at the same angle. Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Rhumb line

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A rhumb line is a path of constant bearing on a spherical (or elliptical) object. If you follow a given (magnetic-deviation compensated) compass-bearing on Earth, you will be following a rhumb line, which spirals from one pole to the other, never actually reaching the poles (nor is it defined at the poles).

Contrast with great circle.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rhumb line."

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Synonyms: Rhumb Line

Synonyms: loxodrome (n), rhumb (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rhumb Line

English words defined with "rhumb line": Loxodromics ♦ Nautical distance ♦ To sail on a rhumb. (references)

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Modern Translations: Rhumb Line

Language Translations for "rhumb line"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

loxodrom (loxodrome). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

loxodroom (loxodrome). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

loksodromi (loxodrome), kompassiviiva (loxodrome). (various references)

   

French

  

loxodromie. (various references)

   

German

  

Loxodrome (loxodrome), Kursgleiche (loxodrome). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λοξοδρομία (loxodrome). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lossodromia (loxodrome). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umbrhay inelay

   

Portuguese

  

loxodromia (loxodrome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

loxodromia (loxodrome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rhumb Line

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-h-i-l-m-n-r-u"

-1 letter: unlimber.

-2 letters: humbler, inhumer, nimbler, rhenium.

-3 letters: berlin, burnie, erbium, helium, humble, humeri, imbrue, inhume, limber, limner, lumber, lunier, menhir, merlin, milneb, murein, murine, nimble, nubile, number, rumble, unhelm.

-4 letters: birle, bluer, blume, brine, bruin, brume, burin, hemin, hilum, ileum, imbue, inure, lemur, liber, limen, liner, linum, lumen, miler, miner, rheum, rhumb, ruble, rumen.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-h-i-l-m-n-r-u"
 

+3 letters: hibernaculum.

 

+4 letters: multibranched.

 

+5 letters: hemoglobinuria, hemoglobinuric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rhumb Line


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 68 75 6D 62      4C 69 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100010 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#104 &#117 &#109 &#98 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0068 0075 006D 0062      004C 0069 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5274877968246758071

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