loxodograph

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noun

An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled

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Meanings

nounloxodograph (plural loxodographs)

plural loxodographs

  1. obsoletenauticalAn apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled

    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.

    1867, The Popular Science Review, volume 6, page 110

Origin

? + -graph

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loxodograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loxodograph

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“loxodograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loxodograph. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “loxodograph,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loxodograph.

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