In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (/rʌm/), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...
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The Rhumb Line is the debut LP for the Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot. Recorded in late 2007 with Ryan Hadlock in Woodinville, WA, the band...
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Rhumb may refer to: Rhumb line, a navigational path with a constant bearing one of the 16 or 32 points of the compass (now rare) a nautical unit of angular...
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Mercator projection (section On a rhumb)
Mercator in 1569. In the 18th century, it became the standard map projection for navigation due to its property of representing rhumb lines as straight lines...
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RhumbLine Advisers (RhumbLine) is an American investment management firm based in Boston. The firm specializes in passive management index-based strategies...
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their debut album, The Rhumb Line, on August 19, 2008, in North America, and on September 22, 2008, in Europe via V2/Cooperative Music. The music video for...
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Rhumb Line is a two-player abstract strategy board game by Martin H. Samuel, played with glass pieces on mousepad-type material, using placement and point...
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Rhumbline network (redirect from Windrose line)
they are not true rhumb lines by the modern definition. A rhumb line in the modern sense is only straight on a chart drawn with the Mercator projection...
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Cantino planisphere (category Historic maps of the world)
continued to be represented according to the portolan-chart model ). The construction of the rhumb line system in the Cantino planisphere uses two circles...
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Portolan chart (section Rhumb lines)
books of sailing directions. Other names that have been proposed include rhumb line charts, compass charts or loxodromic charts whereas modern French scholars...
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Mercator 1569 world map (redirect from New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation)
courses on the sphere (rhumb lines) are mapped to straight lines on the plane map, characterizes the Mercator projection. While the map's geography has been...
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through its antipodal point. The Funk transform integrates a function along all great circles of the sphere. Great ellipse Rhumb line W., Weisstein, Eric. "Great...
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album The Rhumb Line. The song was also covered by garage rock band The Figgs on their 2019 album Shady Grove. Rec.music.gaffa has been the name for the Kate...
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Lawrence Weiner (category Artists from the Bronx)
As Far The Eye Can See at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York March 22 – December 9, 2007, Lawrence Weiner: Inherent in the Rhumb Line at National...
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Breton plotter E6B Great circle Ground track Navigation Navigation room Rhumb line Bartlett, Tim (2008), Adlard Coles Book of Navigations, Adlard Coles,...
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Investments Putnam Investments Pzena Investment Management Raymond James RhumbLine Advisers RLJ Companies Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Russell Investments SEI...
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Isochrone of Leibniz[1] Isochrone of Varignon[2] Lamé curve Pursuit curve Rhumb line Sinusoid Spirals Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Cotes' spiral Fermat's...
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has observed that the deviation of these sites from the rhumb line (although it would be more correct to speak of orthodromic line) that would connect...
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Look up loxodromic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Loxodromic may refer to: a loxodrome, see rhumb line a loxodromic transform, see Möbius transformation#Loxodromic...
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Qibla (section Theoretical basis: the great circle)
necessity distort the surface of the Earth. A straight line shown by the world map in using the Mercator projection is called the rhumb line or the loxodrome...
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Lord Edward FitzGerald (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
route than that hitherto followed. The rhumb line crosses the extremely rugged and heavily forested northern part of the present state of Maine. In a subsequent...
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List of abstract strategy games (section Abstract strategy games that depict conquest of the world or entire continents)
Join five (aka. morpion solitaire, cross 'n' lines, line game) † Quarto Qubic Renju † Rhumb Line † Score four Quantum tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe † (aka noughts...
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Great-circle navigation Mercator Sailing Mid-latitude sailing Parallel sailing Rhumb line Traverse sailing "A Token for Ship-Boys, or Plain Sailing made more plain"...
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Great-circle distance (redirect from Distance between two points on the globe)
navigation Meridian arc Rhumb line Spherical geometry Spherical trigonometry Versor Admiralty Manual of Navigation, Volume 1, The Stationery Office, 1987...
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Navigation that follows a rhumb line — that is, all meridians are cut at the same angle. On a nautical chart following the Mercator projection, a loxodromic...
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sailed the Atlantic between the Rhumb Line Route and the Great Circle Route; some yachts made the journey to Newport, Rhode Island in ten days; the yacht...
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Tropic of Capricorn (section Around the world)
Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2012. RhumbSolve online rhumb line calculator Archived 3 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine...
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Corrachadh Mòr (category Commons category link is defined as the pagename)
United Kingdom Corrachadh Mòr as seen from the Ardnamurchan Point RhumbSolve online rhumb line calculator. "Ardnamurchan | West Highland Peninsula". West Highland...
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of the first songs written by Ra Ra Riot. It was released several times, and was reworked for their first full album, The Rhumb Line, in 2008. The song...
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(transcendental) Catenary Clélies Cochleoid Cycloid Horopter Isochrone Pursuit curve Rhumb line Syntractrix Tractrix Trochoid Archimedean spiral Cornu spiral Fermat's...
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