great-circle sailing

[′grāt ¦sər·kəl ′sāl·iŋ]

(navigation)

Any method of solving the various problems involving courses, distance, and so on, as they are relating to a great-circle track.

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Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing, and the doctors prescribe for diseases of the skin merely.

Plain, Mercator and Great-Circle Sailing, Dialling and Astronomy'.

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