"loxodograph" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "? + -graph",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loxodographs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "loxodograph (plural loxodographs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, The Popular Science Review, volume 6, page 110:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled"
      ],
      "id": "en-loxodograph-en-noun-kSiy2OzK",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "record",
          "record"
        ],
        [
          "course",
          "course"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, obsolete) An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "loxodograph"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "? + -graph",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loxodographs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "loxodograph (plural loxodographs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -graph",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1867, The Popular Science Review, volume 6, page 110:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "record",
          "record"
        ],
        [
          "course",
          "course"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, obsolete) An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "loxodograph"
}