Loxodograph
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Loxodograph is a noun meaning (nautical, obsolete) An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled.
Meaning
(nautical, obsolete) An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled.
Example Sentences
For this purpose he has contrived an instrument which he calls a "loxodograph," which consists of a compass placed below the ordinary ship's compass, so as to occupy the same relative position in the ship, and so that it can be compared from time to time with the normal instrument.
Word Forms
- loxodographs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include loxodrome, chartplotter, clinograph, chorograph, axograph, tracklog.
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