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from The Century Dictionary.
- In navigation, a system for drawing the great-circle track on a Mercator's chart by noting the maximum separation in latitude and then drawing through this point a line parallel to the rhumb-line between the two places. Having these three points, the track may be freely drawn by hand.
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