Resolving a traverse is merely a general term for the determination of a single course equivalent to a series of successive courses steered, whatever be the manner of finding the lengths of the lines forming the triangles.
·adv Athwart; across; crosswise. II. Traverse ·adj A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. III. Traverse...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Denotes the several courses a ship makes under the changes of wind or manœuvres. It is self-evident ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Sail>>. II. Sailing ·noun The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation...
The movement of a vessel by means of her sails along the surface of the water. Sailing, or the saili...
·add. ·- A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and ...
Up one hatchway and down another, to elude duty. (See tom cox's traverse.) ...
A thin circular piece of board, marked with all the points of the compass, and having eight holes bo...
See jack-stays. ...
Cross examinations at a court-martial. ...
A table which gives the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to a certain course and d...
A wind which sets right in to any harbour, and prevents the departure of vessels. ...
The method of determining the true motion of a ship, when, besides being acted upon by the wind, she...
A general designation for all the methods on which the rules of computation are founded, on the hypo...
Performed loxodromically, by means of Mercator's charts. ...
Is the reduction of the position of the ship from the various courses made good, oblique to the meri...
Sailing nearly on a given parallel of latitude. ...
That part of navigation which treats a ship's course as an angle, and the distance, difference of la...
Running a course on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter only a ship's latitude, or longi...
An officer in some navies, whose duties are similar to those of our masters in the royal navy. ...
Works supplied by the admiralty to Her Majesty's ships, which advise the navigator as to the pilotag...
A number of loose pieces floating at a sufficient distance from each other, for a ship to be able to...
With a quartering wind. (See large.) ...
Written instructions for the performance of any proposed duty. ...
A scheme for detecting the approach to shoal water by the diminution of temperature, and found to be...
, or turning to windward. That mode of navigating a ship in which she endeavours to gain a positio...
Synonymous with Mercator's sailing. ...
Up one hatchway and down another: others say three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the scut...
Is a method for determining a series of points in an arc of a great circle between two points on the...
A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle lat...
See sailing, order of. ...
The general disposition of a fleet of ships when proceeding on a voyage or an expedition. It is gene...
To get it fore and aft. ...