Loxodromic /(?)/

Lox·o·drom·ic

Loxodromic

a.
  1. Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables.

Phrases & Compounds
Loxodromic curve
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.