line of position

American  

noun

Navigation.

1. a line connecting all the possible positions of a ship or aircraft, as determined by a single observation. LOP

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Example Sentences

The Pennsylvania-based Tighar’s idea is that they then ran south on a navigational line of position and hit Nikumaroro, then known as Gardner Island.

From Forbes • Nov. 10, 2014

Then he tunes in a second pair of master-and-slave stations operating on a different frequency, and gets a second line of position.

From Time Magazine Archive

For each time lag, a special chart shows a "line of position."

From Time Magazine Archive

Each ring will form round about the line of position of its numbers when in file.

From The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England by Sharp, Cecil J.

Also, the deviation of the masts from the vertical line of position, reckoned from the keel forward or aft.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir