rhumb line
arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle
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rhumb line
Summary
rhumb line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- rhumb line is credited with the discovery of Pedro Nunes[2].
- rhumb line's image is recorded as SeparatrixLoxodrome.png[3].
- rhumb line's subclass of is recorded as spiral[4].
- rhumb line's Commons category is recorded as Loxodrome[5].
- rhumb line's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1537-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
- rhumb line's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l45j[7].
- rhumb line's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0120600[8].
- rhumb line's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0233782[9].
- rhumb line's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[10].
- rhumb line's described by source is recorded as 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Loxodrome[11].
- rhumb line's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
- rhumb line's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
- rhumb line's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/loxodrome[14].
- rhumb line's used by is recorded as loxodromic navigation[15].
- rhumb line's used by is recorded as portolan chart[16].
- rhumb line's MathWorld ID is recorded as Loxodrome[17].
- rhumb line's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2182468[18].
- rhumb line's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[19].
- rhumb line's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 117688341[20].
- rhumb line's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3933638[21].
- rhumb line's Lex ID is recorded as kompaslinje[22].
- rhumb line's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as loxodromia-0[23].
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Works and Contributions
rhumb line is credited with the discovery of Pedro Nunes[2].
Why It Matters
rhumb line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]