line of position
Americannoun
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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
For each time lag, a special chart shows a "line of position."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Advance your First Position Line the true course and distance sailed from 8 A.M. to noon, and through the extremity draw a third line exactly parallel to the first line of position.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
This diagram will make that clear: Just what a line of position is will now be explained.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
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