rhumb in English
noun
1
an imaginary line on the earth's surface cutting all meridians at the same angle, used as the standard method of plotting a ship's course on a chart.
Then, we'll sail on a rhumb line straight in and hope the only ships we meet are ours.
2
any of the 32 points of the compass.
noun
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1. You can instruct several Mapping Toolbox™ functions to compute Azimuths for any pair of point locations, either along rhumb lines or along great circles.