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Great circle
"Great circle" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Wherever a navigator may be, it certainly would be to his advantage to be able to find the great circle, or shortest course, and the distance, to his port of destination, [....]
The shortest distance between two points on an ocean Mercator chart is not a straight line - it is a curve known as a 'great circle'.
Because the Earth's surface is curved, the shortest distance is actually a curve over the surface called a great circle.
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