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loxodograph

loxodograph noun: an apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled.

Noun

loxodograph (plural loxodographs)

  1. (obsolete) An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled
    • For this purpose he has contrived an instrument which he calls a "loxodograph," which consists of a compass placed below the ordinary ship's compass, so as to occupy the same relative position in the ship, and so that it can be compared from time to time with the normal instrument.1867, The Popular Science Review, volume 6, page 110

Forms of loxodograph

pluralloxodographs

Origin of loxodograph

? + -graph

Questions about loxodograph

What does loxodograph mean?
Loxodograph means an apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled.
What part of speech is loxodograph?
Loxodograph is a noun.
What is the plural of loxodograph?
The plural of loxodograph is loxodographs.

Words near loxodograph in the dictionary

  1. loxing
  2. loxism
  3. loxist
  4. loxists
  5. Loxley
  6. loxodograph
  7. loxodographs
  8. loxodont
  9. loxodonts
  10. loxodrome
  11. loxodromes

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