{"id":17932,"date":"2019-05-24T08:47:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17932"},"modified":"2019-06-18T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T17:45:01","slug":"loxodrome-rhumb-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/05\/24\/loxodrome-rhumb-line\/","title":{"rendered":"loxodrome, rhumb line"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>In navigation, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhumb_line\">rhumb line<\/a>, rhumb, or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant bearing as measured relative to true or magnetic north.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>For pretty and interesting pictures showing examples, follow the link.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think I\u2019ve seen rhumb lines on maps before, but didn\u2019t know what they were called, and didn\u2019t know the word <i>loxodrome<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>That Wikipedia entry adds:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>The word <i>loxodrome<\/i> comes from Ancient Greek \u03bb\u03bf\u03be\u03cc\u03c2 <i>lox\u00f3s<\/i>: \u201coblique\u201d + \u03b4\u03c1\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 <i>dr\u00f3mos<\/i>: \"running\" [\u2026]. The word <i>rhumb<\/i> may come from Spanish or Portuguese <i>rumbo\/rumo<\/i> (\"course\" or \"direction\") and Greek \u1fe5\u03cc\u03bc\u03b2\u03bf\u03c2 <i>rh\u00f3mbos<\/i> [\u2026].<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Edited a couple weeks later to add: I\u2019m still amused by the word <i>loxodrome<\/i>. It sounds like a dystopian fighting arena for smoked salmon. \u201cTwo fish enter; one fish leaves!\u201d<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17970,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions\/17970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}