Rhumb is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RHUMB in dictionary:

NOUN:
• in marine navigation, a line of constant direction
• any of the 32 points of the compass.
• A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.
• a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction
• imaginary line on the surface of a sphere that intersects all meridians at the same angle
• an imaginary line on the earth's surface cutting all meridians at the same angle, used as the standard method of plotting a ship's course on a chart.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• rhumb lineimaginary line on the surface of a sphere that intersects all meridians at the same angle

Words related to RHUMB

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Words that contain RHUMB

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How to use RHUMB in a sentence

• On looking at our binnacle, they pointed to the north-west rhumb, and made us easily understand that it was the course they always steered on their return to Macassar.

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