oblique rhumb line

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oblique rhumb line [ə′blēk ′rəm ‚līn]

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A line making the same oblique angle with all fictitious meridians of an oblique Mercator projection; oblique parallels and meridians may be considered special cases of the oblique rhumb line.

Any rhumb line, real or fictitious, making an oblique angle with its meridians; in this sense the expression is used to distinguish such rhumb lines from parallels and meridians, real or fictitious, which may be included in the expression “rhumb line.”

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