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great-circle sailing
[ greyt-sur-kuhl ]
noun
, Navigation.
- sailing between two points more or less according to an arc of a great circle, in practice almost always using a series of rhumb lines of different bearings to approximate the arc, whose own bearing changes constantly unless it coincides with a meridian or the equator.
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This is called Great Circle Sailing and will be talked about in more detail later on.
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This is not great-circle sailing, and the ship so navigated does not take the shortest path.
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Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing, and the doctors prescribe for diseases of the skin merely.
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It is by no means improbable that Cabot, who was an expert navigator, knew that great-circle sailing gave the shorter course.
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